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
William Mercer (poet) an inordinate self-conceit' (DNB). But his conceit did at least ensure that enough information survived to reconstruct the outline of his life." Mercer has been mistakenly credited by some with writing "The Moderate Cavalier, or, The Soldier's Description of Ireland" which was published in 1675, but the William Mercer who wrote it had served as a Royalist in the English Civil War. William Mercer (poet) William Mercer (born circa 1605, died in or after 1675), was a Scottish poet and army officer. At fifteen he ran away from school to become a soldier and fought in the 30 Years War.