“'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour! My fondest hopes would not decay: I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.”

About Charles Stuart Calverley

Poet • British

Charles Stuart Calverley was an English poet and wit, celebrated for his humorous and parodic verse. Educated at Harrow, Balliol College, Oxford, and Christ's College, Cambridge, he was a brilliant classicist and...