Poetry Codex

Victorian

Francis Burdett Money-Coutts

1852–1923

Francis Burdett Money-Coutts (1852–1923), fifth Baron Latymer, was a London solicitor, poet and librettist and heir to the Coutts banking fortune. He is remembered chiefly as a patron and collaborator of the composer Isaac Albéniz.

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

Poems (7)

  1. The Dream
  2. From 'A Little Sequence'
  3. Any Father to Any Son
  4. Empires
  5. Mors, Morituri Te Salutamus
  6. On a Fair Woman
  7. On a Wife

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