Poetry Codex

Victorian

Arthur Shearly Cripps

1869–1952

Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952) was an English-born Anglican priest, missionary, activist, short-story writer and poet who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia.

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

Poems (5)

  1. Les Belles Roses Sans Mercie
  2. Missa Viatoris (In dread of Famine)
  3. An Easter Hymn
  4. The Black Christ
  5. From 'The Death of St. Francis'

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