Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840 - 1922)
"Today [last day of 1911] a sad year ends, the worst politically I can remember since the 1880s, bloodshed, massacre and destruction everywhere, and all accepted in England with a cynical approval, our Foreign Office being accomplice with the evil-doers, and Grey [Foreign Secretary] their apologist. It has been a losing battle in which I have fought long and hard, but with no result of good. I am old, and weary, and discouraged, and would if I could slink out of the fight. I am useless in the face of an entirely hostile world."
Stories of his life
Lady Ann Blunt & Wilfred Scawen Blunt
Wilfred Scawen Blunt
The Wilfred Scawen Blunt Collection
Comments by W.B. Yeats
Comments by Frank Harris
His poetry
"Esther, A Young Man's Tragedy"
Sonnets:
"On Her Vanity"
"On His Choice of Her"
"To One Who Would Make a Confession"
"An Exhortation"
"Vanitas Vanitatis"
"The Pride of Unbelief"
"On the Shortness of Time"
"The Sublime"
"To One Whom He Dared Not Love"
"Love Me A Little"
"Song"
"The Desolate City"
"With Esther"
"To Manon, on his Fortune in loving Her"
"St. Valentine's Day"
"Gibraltar"
"Written at Florence"
"The Two Highwaymen"
"The Old Squire"
Other Blunt-related information
"The White Man's Burden is the burden of his cash"
"Britain's Imperial Destiny 1896 - 1899"
"A New Deuteronmoy, by Paul Johnson"
"Three Remarkable Women"
"Jane Burden"
"Biographies"