Edmund Gosse

Sir Edmund Gosse (1849–1928) was an English poet, critic and librarian of the House of Lords. He published verse early, in On Viol and Flute (1873), and became better known as a man of letters, author of the memoir Father and Son (1907).

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