[A. E. Stallings]

I realize it's still early over on the other side of the Atlantic, but here it is time to retire for the evening, so I had better give out my answers now... As for the others, I'll let the posters answer them. (I recognize the two Frost selections, but other than that...)

A. T.S. Eliot
B. A.E. Housman

F. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Any surprises? Anybody guess/know them?

[Carl Sundell]

C .........Hemingway

[RCL]

D. Robert Frost before he got the design just right.

[Renate]

Ralph and Roger,
I know of the two versions of the Frost, one is listed at the back of an anthology under lesser known poems, but it would take me all day to search through the mess that I've let my study become. I typed it out for someone who was enquiring after it about six months ago.

[Roger Slater]

Renate, thanks. It's quick enough to track down online, it turns out. Just pick a line and paste it into Google. And you're right. Frost apparently wrote an earlier draft of the Design poem. See http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/poetry_frost3.htm

[Tom Jardine]

G

It's true, your budding Miss is very charming,
but shy and awkward at first coming out,
so much alarmed, that she is quite alarming,
all giggle, blush, half pertness, and half pout,
and glancing at Mamma, for fear there's harm in
what you, she, it, or they, may be about,
the nursery still lisps out in all they utter—
besides, they always smell of bread of butter.

Lord Byron, Beppo, Stanza XXXIX
Written in 1817.

[peterjb]

Sorry I'm late.

E: Robert Graves. But then he quite often comes across as contrary.