Charles Hamilton Aïdé

Charles Hamilton Aïdé (1826–1906) was a novelist, song-writer, composer and poet, born in Paris and educated at the University of Bonn. His verse volumes include Eleonore, and Other Poems (1856), The Romance of the Scarlet Leaf, and Other Poems (1865) and Songs without Music (1882), and many of his songs were set to music.

The poem here is taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1895). Spelling is that of the anthology.