Francis Hastings Charles Doyle Biography
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888) was a British poet,
Doyle was born near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, to a military family which produced several distinguished officers, including his father, who bore the same name. He was educated at Eton and Oxford.
Studying law, he was called to the Bar in 1837, and afterwards held various high fiscal appointments, becoming in 1869, Commissioner of Customs. In 1834 he published Miscellaneous Verses, followed by Two Destinies (1844), Oedipus, King of Thebes (1849), and Return of the Guards (1866).
He was elected in 1867 Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Doyle's best work is his ballads, which include The Red Thread of Honour, The Private of the Buffs, and The Loss of the Birkenhead. In his longer poems his genuine poetical feeling was not equalled by his power of expression, and much of his poetry is commonplace.
Doyle's daughter Mary married Charles Carmichael Lacaita, MP and botanist.
LAST night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd, and swore;
A drunken private of the Buffs,
Who never look'd before.
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JULY 9th, 1856.
YES, they return--but who return?
The many or the few?
Clothed with a name, in vain the same;
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Right on our flank the crimson sun went down,
The deep sea rolled around in dark repose,
When, like the wild shriek from some captured town,
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LET the Arab courser go
Headlong on the silent foe!
Their plumer may shine like mountain snow,
Like fire their iron tubes may glow,
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