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Richard Garnett

I lived from 1835-1906. I was from England, and am in the English category.

My poetry

  • The Highwayman's Ghost
    Twelve o'clock—a misty night—
    Glimpsing hints of buried light—
    43 lines
  • The Didactic Poem
    Soulless, colorless strain, thy words are the words of wisdom. Is not a mule a mule, bear he a burden of gold?
    1 lines
  • Even-Star
    First-born and final relic of the night,
    I dwell aloof in dim immensity;
    24 lines
  • Our Crocodile
    Our crocodile, (Psammarathis,
    A priest at Ombi, told me this,)
    24 lines
  • The Taper
    This little light is not a little sign
    Of duteous service innocent of blame,
    14 lines
  • Age
    I will not rail or grieve when torpid eld
    Frosts the slow-journeying blood, for I shall see
    14 lines
  • Dante
    Poet, whose unscarr'd feet have trodden Hell,
    By what grim path and dread environing
    14 lines
  • Written in Miles' "Poets of the Century"
    I saw the youthful singers of my day
    To sound of lutes and lyres in morning hours
    14 lines

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