Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smithwas an English poet and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1902
lonely needs miserable
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
swimming people may
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
beauty nature mean
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
beauty humanity able
Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
simplest
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
youth hours passing
Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
wish-to-die fancy muse
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
tired ideas want
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....
cold drowning moaning
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
behinds bosoms refined
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.