“We are never alone, though we are rarely conscious of other presences.” — William Sharp | V2Melody

“We are never alone, though we are rarely conscious of other presences.”

His lifelong sense that the air is peopled · Note on the poem In Dean Cemetery

About William Sharp

William Sharp

12 September 1855–12 December 1905

William Sharp was born on 12 September 1855 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at a time when Scotland’s industrial towns were expanding rapidly but remained surrounded, in memory and imagination, by older rural worlds. He would become one of the most energetic and versatile literary figures of the late Victorian period: a…

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Poems by William Sharp

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“I cling to my Sunshine Creed—to live sunnily, to think blithely, to act on the square even in my sinning, and to try to give sunshine to others.”

A late resolve to choose light after illness · Letter to E. C. Stedman

“I believe that a spirit has breathed to me, or entered me, or that my soul remembers or has awakened.”

His spiritualist account of the Fiona presence · Letter to Alexander Hood

“Let the ignoble pass, and the noble remain.”

A New Year resolve stripped to one moral cut · Letter signed Fiona to William