Thomas Sturge Moore (4 March 1870 – 18 July 1944) was an English poet, art-historian, dramatist and wood-engraver.
Born: March 4th, 1870
Died: July 18th, 1944
Categories: English poets, English playwrights, Historians, Artists, 1940s deaths
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A sheep in sheep's clothing.
"Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum, Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come', Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb – " "O let me hear!"
Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!
For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.
Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves) With sensitive heads alert of ear; Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.
In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.