Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
        (A Farewell, 5-8)

1. A Farewell
2. Oh! That We Two Were Maying
3. The Sands of Dee
4. The Three Fishers
5. Young and Old

Biographical information

Given name: Charles
Family name: Kingsley
Birth date: 12 June 1819
Death date: 23 January 1875
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Charles Kingsley
          wife: Fanny Kingsley (from 1844)
          son: Grenville Arthur Kingsley
          son: Maurice Kingsley
          daughter: Mary St. Leger Harrison
          daughter: Rose Georgina Kingsley
Education
          Clifton school: 1831
          Grammar school at Helston, Cornwall: 1832
          King's College: 1836
          Magdalene College: October 1838
Religion: Anglican
Politics
          Tory
          Christian socialist
Literary period: Victorian
Occupations
          Professor
          Chaplain: 1859
          Canon: August 1869
Residences
          Clovelly
          Holne Vicarage, Devonshire: 12 June 1819
          London: 1836
Illness: Pleurisy: 1874
Buried at: Eversley
First RPO edition: 1996-2000