Frances Cornford
Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poetess; because of the similarity of her christian name and her husbands, she was known to family as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC".
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“A young Apollo, golden-haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.”
—Frances Cornford (1886–1960)
“O fat white woman whom nobody loves,
Why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
When the grass is soft as the breast of doves
And shivering-sweet to the touch?”
—Frances Cornford (1886–1960)