Francis William Bourdillon
Francis William Bourdillon (22 March 1852 – 13 January 1921) was a British poet and translator.
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... In 1896 he published Nephelé, a romantic novel ... He translated Aucassin et Nicolette as Aucassin and Nicolet (1887), and he wrote the scholarly The Early Editions of the Roman de la Rose (1906) as well as Russia Reborn (1917) and various essays which the Religious Tract Society published ...
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“the light of a whole life dies
When love is gone.”
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When love is gone.”
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