Besant, Walter, Sir (M)

Surname: Besant
Forename(s): Walter
b. 14 August 1836. d. 9 June 1901. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Translator and novelist. Born in Portsea. Son of William Besant and Sarah Ediss. Affiliated with many clubs in London, including as a founding member of the Society of Authors, where he instated Tennyson as president. Educated at King’s College, London. Worked as the secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund while launching a literary career. Married Mary Garrat Foster Barham in 1874. Author of many novels, his most successful of which being The Golden Butterfly (1876). Biographical infotmation: ODNB. (BGL)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 24
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
“Some imitators, like a flock of sheep” 1870-08 Temple Bar Translator 17358
“Just as a gipsy wanderer” 1872-12 Temple Bar Translator 17443
“Hast thou forgot, Louise, Louise” 1872-12 Temple Bar Translator 17444
“Whose steps are those? who comes so late?” 1872-12 Temple Bar Translator 17445
“It was Saturday saying to Sunday” 1872-12 Temple Bar Translator 17446
“Whenas some garden fair I view” 1874-10 Temple Bar Translator 17501
“Listen, the birds with warbling faint” 1874-10 Temple Bar Translator 17502
“Among the cliffs, along the shore” 1874-10 Temple Bar Translator 17500
“Father of all sweet dreams and Lord of rest” 1874-10 Temple Bar Translator 17503
“The shadows are flying” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17527
“Two Johns I know in the world below” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17528
L’Homme Content de Tout 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17521
“Children of joy and mirth” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17525
“If you would extend” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17522
“Since the goal of wealth is passed” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17523
“Dull moralist, cease, cease to mourn” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17526
“Vexed with this wicked world, so shamed” 1875-12 Temple Bar Translator 17524
“‘My daughter,’ taught the pious priest” 1876-08 Temple Bar Translator 17553
“One day the god whose arrows keep” 1876-08 Temple Bar Translator 17554
Hanged 1877-05 Temple Bar Translator 17594
La Belle Heaulmière  1877-05 Temple Bar Translator 17593
“Lady of worth and beauty fair” 1879-06 Temple Bar Translator 17666
“The heart which still in mirthful guise” 1879-06 Temple Bar Translator 17665
“At Toulouse there lived a belle” 1880-10 Temple Bar Translator 17705