Victorian

Sir James Rennell Rodd

1858–1941


Sir James Rennell Rodd, later first Baron Rennell (1858–1941), was a British diplomat, poet and politician who served as Ambassador to Italy during the First World War.

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

  1. A Roman Mirror
  2. From 'In Excelsis'
  3. Actea
  4. Imperator Augustus
  5. The Daisy
  6. When I Am Dead
  7. Then and Now
  8. A Song of Autumn

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