Lord Houghton (Richard Monckton Milnes)

Richard Monckton Milnes, first Baron Houghton (1809–1885), was an English poet, politician and patron of letters. He wrote the first biography of Keats (Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, 1848) and published verse such as Poems of Many Years (1838).

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