Charles Swain (poet)

thumb| Charles Swain (4 January 1801 – 22 September 1874) was an English poet and engraver, born in Manchester. He was honorary professor of poetry at the Manchester Royal Institution, and in 1856 was granted a civil list pension. His friends included Robert Southey. Swain's epitaph for John Horsefield is noted by English Heritage as an element of their rationale for listing Horsefield's tomb as a Grade II monument. Quotes Time to me this truth has taught  ('Tis a treasure worth revealing),More offend from want of thought,  Than from any want of feeling. "Want of Thought", quoted in Notes and Queries, 5th s., vol. 4 (11 December 1875), p. 464 Tripping down the field-path,  Early in the morn,There I met my own love  'Midst the golden corn;Autumn winds were blowing,  As in frolic chase,All her silken ringlets  Backward from her face;Little time for speaking  Had she, for the wind,Bonnet, scarf, or ribbon,  Ever swept behind.Still some sweet improvement  In her beauty shone;Every graceful movement  Won me,—one by one! [...]Little time for wooing  Had we, for the windStill kept on undoing  What we sought to bind. [...]Still I see the field-path;—  Would that I could seeHer whose graceful beauty  Lost is now to me! "Tripping Down the Field Path", English Melodies (1849) External links Category:Poets from England Category:Deaths from disease Category:1801 births Category:1874 deaths