Alfred Cochrane

Alfred Cochrane (1865–1948) was an English writer of light verse. Educated at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Derbyshire (1884–86) and for Oxford University (1885–88), and wrote on sport.

His books of verse include The Kestrel's Nest and Other Verses (1894), Collected Verses (1903) and Later Verses (1918). The poems given here come from the first two.