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Arthur O'Shaughnessy

I lived from 1844-1881. I was from Great Britain, and am in the English category.

O'Shaughnessy was born on May 14, 1844 in London, England. At the age of seventeen he received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum. Two years later at the age of nineteen he was appointed to be an assistant in the natural history department, where he specialized in Ichthyology. However, his true passion was for literature. He published his Epic of Women in 1870, his first collection. He printed three collections of poetry between 1870 and 1874. When he was 30 he married and did not print any more volumes of poetry for the last seven years of his life. His last volume, Songs of a worker was published after his death the same year.

My poetry

  • Ode
    We are the music makers,
    And we are the dreamer of dreams,
    115 lines, 5 comments
  • A Love Symphony
    Along the garden ways just now
    I heard the flowers speak;
    24 lines
  • Song: Has Summer Come Without the Rose
    Has summer come without the rose,
    Or left the bird behind?
    12 lines
  • Song
    I made another garden, yea,
      For my new Love:
    23 lines
  • The Fountain of Tears
    If you go over desert and mountain,
    Far into the country of Sorrow,
    80 lines
  • Barcarolle
    The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay,
    And lights that win are seen in strife with lights that die away.
    30 lines

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