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Charles Mackay

I lived from 1814-1889.

Charles Mackay (1814‑1889) was a British poet and journalist, son of a naval officer, born at Perth, and educated at the Royal Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent much of his early life in France. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in journalism, published Songs and Poems (1834), wrote a History of London, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and a romance, Longbeard. His fame, however, chiefly rests upon his songs, some of which, including Cheer, Boys, Cheer, were in 1846 set to music by Henry Russell, and had an astonishing popularity.

My poetry

  • The Miller Of Dee
    There dwelt a miller, hale and bold,
    Beside the river Dee;
    35 lines, 1 comment
  • I Have Lived and I Have Loved
    I have lived and I have loved;
    I have waked and I have slept;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Little and Great
    A traveller on a dusty road
    Strewed acorns on the lea;
    49 lines
  • An Invocation to Poesy
    Stay with me, Poesy! playmate of childhood!
    Friend of my manhood! delight of my youth!
    34 lines
  • A Deed And A Word
      A little stream had lost its way
        Amid the grass and fern;
    24 lines
  • Tubal Cain
    OLD Tubal Cain was a man of might
      In the days when earth was young:
    63 lines

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