Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

thumb|Death will be found anon. And who shall tell Which part was saddest, or in youth or age, When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage? Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922) was a British poet and writer. Quotes thumb|Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city.A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain. thumb|Your face my quarry was. For it I rode,My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. Life is a play acted by dying men, Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well And go light-tongued without grimace of pain, Death will be found anon. And who shall tell Which part was saddest, or in youth or age, When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage? 'Esther, A Young Man's Tragedy" (1892), Sonnet II Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens.Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars?Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city.A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain. The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914) Therefore the earth is dark to me, the sunlight blackness, Therefore I go in tears and alone, by night and day;Therefore I find no love in heaven, no light, no beauty,A heaven taken by storm, where none are left but the slain! The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914) I knew the Spring was come. I knew it evenBetter than all by this, that through my chaseIn bush and stone and hill and sea and heavenI seem'd to see and follow still your face.Your face my quarry was. For it I rode,My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. St. Valentine's Day, from Collected Poems (1914) External links Wilfred Scawen Blunt includes some poems. Sonnets by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Blunt+Wilfred+Scawen Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Arab Pen, English Purse: John Sabunji and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, on Blunt's political activities in the Middle East, by Martin Kramer Be Blunt: A Biographical Essay On Wilfrid Scawen Blunt by Abdullah Luongo Category:Poets from England Category:1840 births Category:1922 deaths Category:Essayists from England Category:Atheists from England Category:Diplomats of the United Kingdom Category:Victorian poets