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Robert Nichols

1893–1944

Robert Nichols (1893–1944) was an English poet who served as an artillery officer in the First World War and was invalided home. His war poems appeared in Invocation (1915) and Ardours and Endurances (1917).

He later taught English literature in Japan. His poem here comes from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

Poems (12)

  1. Nearer
  2. To----
  3. The Assault
  4. Fulfilment
  5. The Tower
  6. The Sprig of Lime
  7. Seventeen
  8. The Stranger
  9. 'O Nightingale my Heart'
  10. The Pilgrim
  11. Night Rhapsody
  12. November

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