Cecil Day-Lewis:
(Ballintubber, County Mayo, Ireland, 27 April 1904 – Hadley Wood, Enfield, England, 22 May 1972).
Irish-English poet and prose writer. In 1968, he was appointed British Poet Laureate to succeed John Masefield. He published under the name C. Day Lewis; under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, he wrote 20 detective novels.

The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage, all seems tranquil, all in tune.

In June, we picked the clover. And seashells in July. There was no silence at the door, no word from the sky.
