A wall is the safeguard of simplicity. - Alice Meynell

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A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Alice Meynell

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About Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Alternative Names: Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell • Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth Wallace Stevens Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley

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For you knew not it was I,
And I knew not it was you.
We have learnt, as days went by.
But a flower struck root and grew
Underground, and no one knew.

[S]he used her intellect, and that action is the vitality of all poetry that is not song only, but poetry and song.

From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight
And go with the hour.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity. - Alice Meynell

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