Ocupation: Writer
Life: July 8, 1892 - July 27, 1962
Birthday: July 8
Death: July 27
I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them.
source: Richard Aldington (1928). “Collected poems”
topic: Happiness, Dark, Garden, Pale Yellow, Water Lily