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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
B. 1886 D. 1962
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886 – 1962), grew up in East Lancashire. She is now best known as a working-class writer, feminist, and socialist activist, but she was first noticed as a poet, journalist and children’s writer. She is believed to be…
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Most earnestly and truly I believe The human heart is beautiful and good: Though poisonous weeds upgrow within its clefts As nightshade grows within the verdant wood. There are soft streams that flow with gentle sound, And pearly sprays of…
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Meadow Clock - Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Meadow Clock, Meadow Clock, what time of day? Childhood time, wild-wood time – laughter and play. Meadow Clock, Meadow Clock is there time still To go by the brooklets way, home by the mill? Yes there is time. Journey slow,…
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They built the house of Power on Force and Fear,And gave authority the key to hold,Stamping it with the hall-mark of dead gold,And rusting it in human Blood and Tear.‘Behold!’ cried Power, ‘The glory of my state!Here I conserve forever…
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The Universal Life - Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Wide open stands the door of my soul And the world’s men and women troop through; Some weeping, some laughing, some dumb with despair, Wearing roses, and fennel, and rue; And the beat of their feet makes a martial refrain,…
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The man is free to come and free to go. To earn his crust, and bed, and journey on. And hush the restless cry that’s in his head, But I must hear it plead till life is done. He sleeps…