Owen Suffolk
Who is Owen Suffolk
Owen Hargrave Suffolk (4 April 1829 – ? ) was an Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author of Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (1867).
Early life
Owen Henry Suffolk was born on 4 April 1829 in comfortable circumstances in Finchley, Middlesex, Suffolk was sent to sea as a youth when his father, a London merchant, was ruined.
Crime, imprisonment and transportation
On his return Suffolk found himself homeless and fell into a life of crime. Charged with stealing in 1844, he was sentenced to a year’s detention. He was then convicted of forgery in 1846 serving time in Newgate, Millbank and Coldbath Fields prisons before being transported on the convict ship the Joseph Soames in 1847. In Victoria, Australia by his own account ...
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Owen Suffolk Poems
- The Prison Bell
Hark to the bell of sorrow! - 'tis awak'ning up again
Each broken spirit from its brief forgetfulness of pain.
Its sad sound seems to me to be a deathwail from the past,
An elegy for buried joys too pure and bright to last.
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- Untitled 6
I am so lonely,
I am so sad,
Speak one word only
To make my heart glad,
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- Untitled 4
Mother! Darling mother, you are seeking me I know,
And I feel thy love will follow through the world where'er I go;
But I cannot come, dear mother; I am sadly altered now:
The once fair wreath of innocence that garlanded my brow
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- The Real And The Ideal
I feel I have - and who has not?
An inner and outer life:
The one may be a dreary lot,
With sorrow and with suff'ring rife;
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- Untitled 3
Nothing seems changed; here's the oaken chair,
That every night I knelt beside,
As I whispered to God the simple prayer
I learned from my mother when I was her pride.
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Comments about Owen Suffolk
- Birdwatchextra: review of the week: 20-26 march 2023
the alpine swift influx continued unabated while overshooting rarities comprised a scillonian lesser kestrel and a great spotted cuckoo in suffolk. dan owen reports.
- Abc11_wtvd: suffolk county officers zachary vormittag, jadin rodriguez, conor diemer and sgt. jon-erik negron helped save baby owen's life.
- Schupperdrz: owen suffolk's days of crime and years of suffering s76quxn
- Owen_page9: probably most worried that you blokes in suffolk think 58-42 is 15, and not 16 tbf mate.
- Bactontransport: the vicar of dibley comes to suffolk!
due to popular demand, the henley players are returning to dibley with another stage production. our thespian driver richard will be playing farmer owen newitt.
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