SHE wanders in the April woods,That glisten with the fallen shower;She leans her face...
Alfred Austin
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Alfred Austin was an English poet and journalist who became the poet laureate in 1896, succeeding Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was a conservative and imperialist who wrote for The Standard and edited the National Review. His poetry was often criticized as mediocre and uninspired, and he is mostly remembered for his nature poems and his autobiography, The Door of Humility. |
LEAVE me a little while alone,Here at his grave that still is strownWith crumbling...
HERE’S to him that grows it,Drink, lads, drink!That lays it in and mows it,Clink,...
Now do I know that Love is blind, for ICan see no beauty on...