V. (Victoria) Sackville-West

V. (Victoria) Sackville-West
Victoria Sackville-West, commonly known as Vita Sackville-West, was a British writer, poet, and gardener. She is best known for her novels, poetry, and works on gardening, and was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. One of her most famous novels is "The Edwardians" (1930), and her poem "The Land" (1927) won the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. She was also the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando" and created the celebrated gardens at Sissinghurst Castle.

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FOR ***   NO eyes shall see the poems that I write  For you; not even yours; but after long  Forgetful years have passed on our delight  Some hand may chance upon a dusty song   Of those fond days when every spoken word  Was sweet, and all the fleeting things unspoken  Yet sweeter, and the music half unheard  Murmured through forests as a charm unbroken.   It is the plain and ordinary... more...

THE first thing which attracted my attention to the man was the shock of white hair above the lean young face. But for this, I should not have looked twice at him: long, spare, and stooping, a shabby figure, he crouched over a cup of coffee in a corner of the dingy restaurant, at fretful enmity with the world; typical, I should have said, of the furtive London nondescript. But that white hair startled... more...