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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| Chant Sung in Darkness | 5 September 2014 |
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| Chorus at the Green Bear Inn | 19 May 2014 |
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| Come, Let Us Make Love Deathless | 19 May 2014 |
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| Conversation on the Russian Front | 19 May 2014 |
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| Daughters of Joy | 5 September 2014 |
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| Deep in a High Valley | 5 September 2014 |
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| Epitaph on an Infant | 19 May 2014 |
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| Fantasia on Claviers at Night | 19 May 2014 |
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| Far Off, May Be, the Heart's Eyes Shall Behold You | 19 May 2014 |
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| Flame-Footed Youth | 19 May 2014 |
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