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May Herschel-Clarke

I lived from 1850-1950. I was from England, and am in the English category.

May Herschel-Clarke Lived between 1850 and1950. She was an Englishwoman who, as far as can be ascertained published only a single volume of poems.
This was in 1917 and it is chiefly remembered for the two anti-war poems Nothing to Report and The Mother.
The Mother was a direct response to Rupert Brooke's famous poem The Soldier.
JS

My poetry

  • 'Nothing to Report'
    One minute we was laughin, me an' Ted,
    The next, he lay beside me grinnin' - dead.
    2 lines
  • The Mother
    If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there's some corner of a foreign field
    18 lines
  • ‘For Valour’
    Jest bronze – you wouldn’t ever know,
    To see it jest a-lying there,
    20 lines

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