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Any idea who wrote this?

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Marmight Fri 24-Jul-20 11:58:37

Can anyone enlighten me as to the author of this poem? I found it on an ancient scrap of paper in my late aunt’s effects. I can’t trace it on Google. She recently died aged almost 104 and we think the love of her life was a married Canadian serviceman. Very poignant.

‘Sometimes the heart into a thousand pieces breaks, or so it seems, and life ceases
And all the years ahead the mind conceives as dead
But always in the end, time proves the stronger dulling the pain until no longer can faithful memory make the old sound even ache‘

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Bathsheba Fri 24-Jul-20 12:00:56

I wonder if she wrote it herself? It’s so beautiful, so very poignant and certainly seems to fit what you have told of her.

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sodapop Fri 24-Jul-20 12:38:17

That's lovely Marmight maybe your Aunt wrote it herself as Bathsheba said.

My biological father was a married Canadian service man. Is there a pattern emerging here?

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vampirequeen Fri 24-Jul-20 12:39:00

I've run it through the internet but the only thing that shows up is this thread.

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grannysue05 Fri 24-Jul-20 12:39:00

Was it handwritten?
If so, maybe it was from the Canadian serviceman.
Beautiful.

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Marmight Fri 24-Jul-20 13:13:13

It was in her writing. She may have written it but I’d be very surprised- unless she had (another) hidden talent! It has a feel of 15 /16 century to it.

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Illte Fri 24-Jul-20 13:17:26

Actually I thought it had the flavour of Alice Meynell who I think is one of the great unsung poets of the late victorian/Edwardian era.

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