West Country Poets
KNIGHT, Thomas H. (b.1863) 300-302
This young writer may be classed as one of the minor
living Cornish poets. He was born at Lostwithiel in 1863, and educated
at the Grammar School in that town up to 1877, since which time he has
been engaged in clerical work. He is now an officer in Her Majesty's
Customs at Goole in Yorkshire. Between the years 1881 and 1886 many
of Mr. Knight's pieces appeared in
Young England (in connection
with which paper he has won twelve prizes and twenty certificates), the
Weekly Dispatch, Cornish Times, West Briton, West of England Magazine,
Church in the West, etc. His pieces have not been collected,
and the following are from MS. copies furnished by Mr. Knight himself.
A BALLAD OF DEVON
My song is of Devon, the cradle of free men,
The shire of the meadow, the mountain, the moor,
The home of that race of invincible seamen
That harried the Spaniard on Mexico's shore
[. . . . more verses in the same vein follow on pp.301-301.]
Transcribed from: Wright, W. H. K.,(1896) West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works.
London: Elliot Stock, pp.48-51
Transcriber:
Sandra WINDEATT. I have taken the liberty of typing the surnames
in capital letters. Many thanks to Linda Cross for typing the original
index. I would never have found the book if it weren't for her kindness
in sharing this information.
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