Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux

Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (27 February 1857 – 9 February 1944), born Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.

Quotes

 * We cannot all be great poets; but the humblest, if they be sincere, may give a genuine pleasure.
 * Preface, The Collected Poems Lyrical and Narrative (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p. viii.


 * You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly? A stranger hither? So am I, And (sooth to say) I wonder why We either of us came!
 * "To a Dragon-fly", in The Collected Poems Lyrical and Narrative (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p. 70.