Poetry Codex

Victorian

Richard Chenevix Trench

1807–1886

Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) was an Anglican churchman who became Archbishop of Dublin, and also a poet and philologist.

The poems here are taken from Alfred H. Miles (ed.), The Poets and the Poetry of the Century (London: Hutchinson, 1891–1897), vols. 4, 10, from the Internet Archive scans of that edition. Spelling is that of the anthology; Miles's biographical essay and extracts from longer poems are omitted, and only poems that could be read cleanly from the scan are included.

Poems (13)

  1. Love
  2. The Kingdom of God
  3. A wretched thing it were, to have our heart
  4. As when unto a mother, having chid
  5. Returning Home
  6. What, many times I musing asked, is man.
  7. This Did Not Once So Trouble Me
  8. Gibraltar
  9. If there had anywhere appeared in space
  10. O life, O death, O world, O time
  11. After the Battle
  12. All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone
  13. Harmosan

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