Frederick Locker-Lampson
Frederick Locker-Lampson
Frederick Locker-Lampsonwas an English man of letters, bibliophile and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
cobblers remember leather
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
simple years vanity
Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
disappointment faces youth
Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.