Elizabeth Daryush

Elizabeth Daryush (née Bridges; 8 December 1887 – 7 April 1977) was an English poet.

Quotes

• She said to one: "How light
  Must 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 sun
  lights up the polished breakfast-table, laid
  round a bowl of crimson roses, for one—
  a service of Worcester porcelain, arrayed
  near it a melon, peaches, figs, small hot
  rolls 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-wood
  feeling that life's a table set to bless
  her delicate desires with all that’s good,
  that even the unopened future lies
  like 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

• Encyclopedic article on Elizabeth Daryush on Wikipedia