Poetry Codex

Victorian

Charles Swain

1801–1874

Charles Swain (1801–1874) was an English poet and engraver, born in Manchester. He was honorary professor of poetry at the Manchester Royal Institution and received a civil list pension in 1856.

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

Poems (7)

  1. The Field-'Path
  2. Take the World as it is
  3. Life
  4. The Rose Thou Gav'st
  5. 'Twas just before the hay was mown
  6. A Violet
  7. Smile and Never Heed Me

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