Viola Garvin
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Viola Gerard Garvin (1 January 1898 – January 1969) was an English poet and literary editor at The Observer.
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Quotes
[edit]- All done, all fled, and now we faint and tire—
The Feast is over and the lamps expire! ...
All dim, all pale—so lift me on the pyre—
The Feast is over and the lamps expire!- "The House of Cæsar", sts. 1 and 5. Corn in Egypt (1926)
- Paraphrased in Robert E. Howard's suicide note (11 June 1936):
- All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over and the lamps expire.
- All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre;
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Viola Garvin on Wikipedia