love is not all

Biography

• Born 1892 Deceased 1950
• Had several relationships with other women
• Active pacifist but supported the war effort in 1940
•  Bought a blueberry farm and built a tennis court and writing cabin
• "Steepletop" her late home is now a  museum 

"Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink"

"Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain"

"Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink"

"And rise and sink and rise and sink again;"

"Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath,"

"Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;"

"Yet many a man is making friends with death"

"Even as i speak, for lack of love alone"

"It well may be that in a difficult hour,"

"Pinned down by pain and moaning for release"

"Or nagged by want past resolution's power,"

"I might be driven to sell your love for peace"

"Or trade the memory of this night for food."

"It may well be. I do not think i would."

"It well may be. I do not think i would."