Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, critic and naturalist. He was born at the vicarage in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall.
Read more about Geoffrey Grigson: Life, Family, Works, New Verse: An Anthology (1942 Edition), Poetry of The Present (1949)
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“I change, and so do women too;
But I reflect—which women seldom do.
Tobacco is a filthy weed,
That from the devil doth proceed;
That drains your purse, that burns your clothes,
That makes a chimney of your nose.”
—Anonymous. “Written on a Looking Glass,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)
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