Oc­to­ber 7, 1835, Spa Vil­la, Bath, Eng­land.

March 10, 1917, New­port, Mon­mouth­shire, Eng­land.

Pierpoint grad­u­at­ed from Queen’s Coll­ege, Cam­bridge Un­i­ver­si­ty, in 1857, and lat­er taught class­ics at Som­er­set­shire Coll­ege. He lat­er lived at Bab­bi­combe, De­von­shire, and else­where, and oc­ca­sion­al­ly taught. His works in­clude:

• The Chal­ice of Na­ture and Other Po­ems (un­dat­ed, but re­is­sued in 1878 as Songs of Love, the Chal­ice of Na­ture, and Ly­ra Je­su)

• Erickson, p. 372
• McCutchan, p. 41
• Telford, p. 61

1. For the Beau­ty of the Earth
2. O Cross, O Cross of Shame