Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (17 August 1840 – 10 September 1922) was a British poet and writer.

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?

Quotes

Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city.
A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain.

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 even
  Better than all by this, that through my chase
  In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven
  I 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
• Works by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at Project Gutenberg
• 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