My love came back to me Under the November tree Shelterless and dim. He put his hand upon my shoulder, He did not think me strange or older, Nor I him. Although the myth enhances the poem - it can be read as the meeting of older, former lovers. To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train However, Cornford is possibly best remembered for her triolet poem "To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train" in Poems of 1910. O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering-sweet to the touch? O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? To which G. K. Chesterton replied in "The Fat Lady Answers" in his Collected Poems of 1927: Why do you rush through the field in trains, Guessing so much and so much. Why do you flash through the flowery meads, Fat-head poet that nobody reads; And why do you know such a frightful lot About people in gloves as such? ... Earlier, in 1910, A. E. Housman had written a parody in a private letter: O why do you walk through the fields in boots, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody shoots, Why do you walk through the fields in boots, When the grass is soft as the breast of coots ... The first lines of this poem were spoken by a character in Agatha Christie's 1939 novel Murder is Easy. See also Conduit Head Notes External links Encyclopædia Britannica Bibliography The Coast: Norfolk by Frances Cornford Archival Material at 1886 births 1960 deaths Darwin–Wedgwood family English women poets Burials in Cambridgeshire 20th-century English poets 20th-century English women writers