Victoria Sackville-west
Who is Victoria Sackville-west
Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville, (23 September 1862 – 30 January 1936) was a British noblewoman, mother of the writer, poet, and gardener Vita Sackville-West.
Early life
Victoria was one of seven illegitimate children of the English diplomat Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville, and a Spanish dancer known by the stage name of "Pepita de Oliva", (Josefa née Durán y Ortega; she was married to Juan Antonio de Oliva). Pepita was referred to as Countess West, though she never divorced her legal husband or married the father of her children. Victoria was, in youth, referred to as Pepita Sackville West, or "Lolo", a diminutive of her name Dolores. While at convent school in 1881, however, the truth of her origins was revealed,...
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Victoria Sackville-west Poems
- Leopards At Knole
Leopards on the gable-ends,
Leopards on the painted stair,
Stiff the blazoned shield they bear,
Or and gules, a bend of vair,
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- Trio
So well she knew them both! yet as she came
Into the room, and heard their speech
Of tragic meshes knotted with her name,
And saw them, foes, but meeting each with each
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- Beechwoods At Knole
How do I love you, beech-trees, in the autumn,
Your stone-grey columns a cathedral nave
Processional above the earth's brown glory!
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- Song
If I had only loved your flesh
And careless damned your soul to Hell,
I might have laughed and loved afresh,
And loved as lightly and as well,
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- Full Moon
She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers
Someone had brought her from Ispahan,
And the little gold coat with pomegranate blossoms,
And the coral-hafted feather fan;
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- Nathanfrancis__: "among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
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- Satisfaksi: happy vita sackville-west day, everyone.
the attached thread below consists of the last three stanzas from one of the honourable victoria mary sackville-west's poems titled “and so it ends”
- Eastcoastdevin: pierre’s rounded off percentages in each ns riding:
cape breton–canso 65
central nova 68
cumberland–colchester 69
dartmouth–cole harbour 59
halifax 52
halifax west 62
kings–hants 75
sackville–preston–chezzetcook 69
south shore–st. margarets 69
sydney–victoria 78
west nova 76
- Titti_russo: "nothing is more beautiful than the union between two people where love has matured over the years, from the small acorn of passion to the tree with great roots" ..
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