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Edith Joy Scovell

I lived from 1907-1999.

My poetry

  • Deaths of Flowers
    I would if I could choose
    Age and die outwards as a tulip does;
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Half-Mown Meadow
    I walked in a half-mown flowering meadow by the sea's-
    Edge of the grass, where yesterday the mower went.
    18 lines
  • A Dark World
    Under the pent-house branches the eight swans have come,
    Into the black-green water round the roots of the yew;
    23 lines

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