Elizabeth Daryush

Elizabeth Daryush (née Bridges; 8 December 1887 – 7 April 1977) was an English poet. Quotes She said to one: "How lightMust be your freed heart now,After the heavy fight!"He said: "Well, I don't know...The war gave one a shake,Somehow, knocked one awake...Now, life's so deadly slow." "Subalterns", st. 2, in Catherine W. Reilly, ed., Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War (London: Virago, 1981), p. 28 Through the open French window the warm sunlights up the polished breakfast-table, laidround a bowl of crimson roses, for one—a service of Worcester porcelain, arrayednear it a melon, peaches, figs, small hotrolls in a napkin, fairy rack of toast,butter in ice, high silver coffee pot,and, heaped on a salver, the morning's post.She comes over the lawn, the young heiress,from her early walk in her garden-woodfeeling that life's a table set to blessher delicate desires with all that’s good,that even the unopened future lieslike a love-letter, full of sweet surprise. "Still-Life", quoted in Yvor Winters, "Robert Bridges & Elizabeth Daryush", The American Review, vol. 8, no. 3 (January 1937), p. 365 External links Category:1887 births Category:1977 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1880s