Frederic Edward Weatherly

Frederic Edward Weatherly (1848–1929) was an English barrister and lyricist, born at Portishead in Somerset and educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He wrote the words of a very large number of popular songs, among them “Nancy Lee”, “The Holy City” and “Danny Boy”.

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895).