Birth date: 
12 November
Death date: 
11 June

Frederic Herbert Trench (12 November 1865 - 11 June 1923) was an Irish poet.

He was born in Avonmore, County Cork, and educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford. From 1891 he worked as an examiner for the Board of Education.

In 1908 a Dramatic Symphony, opus 51, written by Joseph Holbrooke setting Trench's poem Apollo and the Seaman was performed, under Thomas Beecham. Trench then moved into theatrical work for a few years, collaborating with his friend Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden. They put on The Blue Bird by Maeterlinck in 1909, and Ibsen's The Pretenders in 1913, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Afterwards, he spent time travelling. He died in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Some of his other poems were set to music by Arnold Bax.

Works

  • Deirdre Wed and other Poems (1901)
  • New Poems (1907)
  • Lyrics and Narrative Poems (1911?)
  • Ode from Italy in time of War (1915)
  • Napoleon (1919) play
  • Poems (1924, Cape)

Poems by this Poet

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You Were Stay'd 19 May 2014
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Who Art Thou, Starry Ghost 19 May 2014
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What Bids Me Leave 29 November 2013
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To Arolilia 19 May 2014
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To a Nightingale Heard upon a Hilltop Before Dawn 5 September 2014
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To a Dead Poet 5 September 2014
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Three Hours, O Christ 29 November 2013
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Thou Stream 5 September 2014
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Thine Eyes in Mine Eyes 29 November 2013
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The Unhappy Marriage 5 September 2014
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