Mathilde Blind
Who is Mathilde Blind
Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 in Mannheim, Germany – 26 November 1896, in London), was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists and writers. By the late 1880s she had become prominent among New Woman writers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), Amy Levy, Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and Katharine Tynan. She was praised by Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Michael Rossetti, Amy Levy, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Symons and Arnold Bennett. Her much-discussed poem The Ascent of Man presents a distinctly feminist response to the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Early life
Blind was born in Mannhe...
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Mathilde Blind Poems
- Marriage
LOVE springs as lightly from the human heart
As springs the lovely rose upon the brier,
Which turns the common hedge to floral fire,
As Love wings Time with rosy-feathered dart.
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- The Moon Of Ramadân
The sunset melts upon the Nile,
The stony desert glows,
Beneath heaven's universal smile,
One burning damask rose;
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- Lines Ii
THOU camest with the coming Spring!
With swallows, and the murmuring
Of unloosed waters, with the birth
Of daisies dimpling the green earth.
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- As Many Stars
AS many stars as are aglow
Deep in the hollows of the night
As many as the flowers that blow
Beneath the kindling light;
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- The Dying Dragoman
Far in the fiery wilderness,
Beyond the town of Assouan,
Left languishing in sore distress,
There lay a dying Dragoman.
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- Brokensleep: including poems from: john agard, vasiliki albedo, andre bagoo, robert bal, liam bates, sally bayley, charlie baylis, mathilde blind, jane burn, wendy cope, hannah copley, lesley curwen, rishi dastidar, olga dermott-bond, imtiaz dharker, charles dibdin,
- Thetls: 'mathilde had a desultory and informal education, as young women did in those days, but she learnt much through the family salon in st john’s wood, which entertained mazzini and garibaldi and many pre-raphaelite artists, progressive thinkers and émigrés.'
- Proverbialsoups: not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.
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- Brucearthurs4: not exactly sure what this beast is supposed to be; maybe a hairy dragon? whatever it is, it looks like it's having a really rough day.
from an uncredited page ornament in tarantella: a romance, 1885, written by mathilde blind.
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