The Coast: Norfolk

Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)



As on the highway's quiet edge
He mows the grass beside the hedge,
The old man has for company
The distant, grey, salt-smelling sea,
A poppied field, a cow and calf,
The finches on the telegraph.
Across his faded back a hone,
He slowly, slowly scythes alone
In silence of the wind-soft air,
With ladies' bedstraw everywhere,
With whitened corn, and tarry poles,
And far-off gulls like risen souls.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Scheme AABBCCDDEEFF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 394
Words 71
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

Frances Darwin Cornford

Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin) was an English poet; because of the similarity of her first name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". more…

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