Nora Hopper Chesson

Nora Hopper Chesson (1871–1906) was a poet and story-writer of Irish descent, born in Exeter, who drew on Irish folklore and song. She belonged to the Celtic revival of the 1890s and was praised by W. B. Yeats.

She married the writer W. H. Chesson in 1901 and died young, in 1906. Her poem here comes from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).