Victorian

Henry Charles Beeching

1859–1919


Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919) was a British clergyman, writer and poet, Dean of Norwich from 1911 to 1919.

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

  1. Prayers
  2. Going down Hill on a Bicycle
  3. The Blackbird
  4. Accidia
  5. Knowledge after Death
  6. The Tree of Life: Recognition in Four Seasons
  7. A Summer Day
  8. To My Totem

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