Poetry Codex

Victorian

David Gray

1838–1861

David Gray (1838–1861) was a Scottish poet from Merkland, Kirkintilloch, who died in his home town aged twenty-three. His friend Robert Buchanan wrote his biography.

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

Poems (4)

  1. My Epitaph
  2. The Dear Old Toiling One
  3. Die down, O dismal day!
  4. O winter! wilt thou never, never go?

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