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Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West was born on March 9 1892, at Knole, the sprawling Tudor palace in Kent, England, that was given to Thomas Sackville by Elizabeth I. She was the only child of Lionel Edward Sackville-West and Victoria

Full Moon

by Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962)

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She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers

Someone had brought her from Isfahan,

And the little gold coat with the pomegranate blossoms,

And the coral-hafted feather fan;

And she ran down a Kentish lane in the moonlight,

And skipped in the pool of the moon as she ran.

 She cared not a rap for all the big planets, 
 For Betelgeuse or Aldebaran, 
 And all the big planets cared nothing for her, 

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What poet's death by disease, aboard a troopship in 1915, prompted Winston Churchill to write, "The thoughts to which he gave expression . . . will be shared by many thousands of young men moving resolutely and blithely forward into this, the hardest, the cruelest, and the least-rewarded of all the wars that men have fought"?

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