“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.”

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...