Robert Nichols (poet) War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." "Noon" "Thanksgiving" In 1919 the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote a "Music to “The Rider by Night”" (not extant in full). Robert Nichols (poet) Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (6 or 16 September 1893 – 17 December 1944) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, and a playwright. The son of the poet John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols, Robert Nichols was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the Royal
Thomas Henry Smith (poet) Thomas Henry Smith (poet) Thomas Henry Smith (22 November 1824 – 23 September 1907) of Auckland was an English-born New Zealand Native Land Court Judge and poet. He is best known for the Māori language translation of "God Defend New Zealand", one of the two national anthems of New Zealand, which he wrote at the request of Governor George Edward Grey. Smith was born at Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. After his formal education he worked at a Land Surveying and Architecture office in Romford, Essex. In 1842, he went to New Zealand after being offered a cadetship by the New Zealand