Winifred Emma May (June 4, 1907 – August 28, 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength. She was also a successful lyricist, composing the words to 'Jealousy' and 'The Dream of Olwen' and an author of several books dealing with Christianity and practical psycholog


In 1935 she asked The Daily Mirror for a regular publication of her poems. The features editor asked her to return the following day with eighteen new poems and a suggested pseudonym. This she did with the pseudonym of Patience Strong, a name she took from a book of the same name by Adeline T. Whitney (born 1870). Her daily poems, in ‘The Quiet Corner’, continued throughout World War II until 1946 when her column was transferred to the Sunday Pictorial (later The Sunday Mirror) and continued for several decades. She also contributed poems to the weekly magazine Womans Own and latterly to the quarterly magazine, This England. Her poems were also published in various anthologies and she made two records reciting her poems.

This is a series of poems to do with the Second World War by the popular British poet Patience Strong. Well illustrated with black and white plates. Contains 37 different poems which are very evocative of the period. Attractive pictorial dust wrapper. Very good+.