Poetry Codex

Romantic

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

1787–1874

Bryan Waller Procter (1787–1874), who wrote as "Barry Cornwall", was an English poet and lawyer, a friend of Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt and the father of the poet Adelaide Anne Procter. He is best remembered for his songs, collected in English Songs and Other Small Poems (1832).

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

Poems (28)

  1. The Poet's Song to His Wife
  2. A Petition to Time
  3. A Bacchanalian Song
  4. She Was Not Fair nor Full of Grace
  5. The Sea-King
  6. A Serenade
  7. King Death
  8. Sit Down, Sad Soul
  9. A Drinking Song
  10. Peace! What Do Tears Avail?
  11. The Sea
  12. The Hunters Song
  13. The History of a Life
  14. Finis
  15. Sing a Low Song
  16. For Music
  17. Hermione
  18. For a Fountain
  19. The Stormy Petrel
  20. Life
  21. The Blood Horse
  22. Golden-Tressed Adelaide
  23. A Poet's Thought
  24. A Song for the Seasons
  25. Softly Woo Away Her Breath
  26. Lucy
  27. The Owl
  28. The White Squall

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