Victorian

Douglas Ainslie

1865–1948


Douglas Ainslie (1865–1948) was a Scottish poet, translator, critic and diplomat, born in Paris and educated at Eton and at Balliol and Exeter Colleges, Oxford. He contributed to The Yellow Book.

The poems here are taken from Arthur Quiller-Couch's anthology The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Clarendon Press, 1912).

  1. Apprehension
  2. The Archer

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