Poetry Codex

Victorian

Alfred Austin

1835–1913

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) was an English poet and journalist, born near Leeds. He wrote for the Standard and the National Review, and in 1896 succeeded Tennyson as Poet Laureate, an office he held until his death.

The poem given here is taken from Edmund H. Garrett's anthology Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature (Boston: Little, Brown, 1895).

Poems (16)

  1. A Night in June
  2. Now do I know that love is blind, for I
  3. Keen winds of cloud and vaporous drift
  4. Said Fading-leaf to Fallen-leaf
  5. The Ballad of the Boat
  6. The Lyrical Poem
  7. Age
  8. The Dresden Venuses
  9. The Lover's Song
  10. Love's Trinity
  11. Primroses
  12. At His Grave (Hughenden, May, 1881)
  13. Agatha
  14. The Haymakers' Song
  15. The Last Redoubt
  16. A Voice from the West

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