F. W. Bourdillon

Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) was an English poet and translator, educated at Worcester College, Oxford. His best-known lyric, "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes", first appeared in his collection Among the Flowers (1878).

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