Poetry Codex

Victorian

William Cox Bennett

1820–1895

William Cox Bennett (1820–1895) was an English poet and journalist, born at Greenwich. He is remembered chiefly for his domestic and patriotic songs, among them the nursery favourite "Baby May", collected in volumes such as Songs by a Song-Writer (1859).

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

Poems (10)

  1. Cradle Song (Sleep! the bird is in its nest)
  2. My Roses Blossom the Whole Year Round
  3. Cradle Song (Lullaby! O lullaby)
  4. TIS a cloudless noon of sultry June
  5. O well I love the Spring
  6. Baby May
  7. A Christmas Song
  8. Thy Name
  9. Summer Invocation
  10. To a Cricket

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