Poetry Codex

Victorian

George Walter Thornbury

1828–1876

George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) was an English poet, journalist and writer on London and on the painter Turner. His best-known verse is Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads (1857).

The poems given here are taken from Edmund H. Garrett's anthology Victorian Songs (Boston: Little, Brown, 1895) and R. Brimley Johnson's Popular British Ballads (1894).

Poems (11)

  1. Dayrise and Sunset
  2. The Three Troopers
  3. The Cuckoo
  4. Old Sir Walter
  5. The Three Scars
  6. Trample! trample! went the roan
  7. The White Rose Over the Water
  8. The Court Historian
  9. Melting of the Earl's Plate
  10. The Old Grenadier's Story
  11. The Sally from Coventry

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