Sonnets of a Portrait Painter Ficke, Arthur Davidson, Sonnets of a Portrait Painter. New York: Mitchell Inscribed: ‘To Llewelyn Powys from Arthur Davison Ficke'. Note: Ficke, an American poet, and his partner Edna St Vincent Millay, were friends of John Cowper Powys and Llewelyn Powys particularly during the period that John Cowper Powys lived in Hillsdale. Millay and Llewelyn were briefly lovers. nd