Shapcott Wensley was the pseudonym of the English

England

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 author

Author

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 and poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 Henry Shapcott Bunce (1854 – June 1, 1917).

Life

He was born in Bristol in the summer of 1854. He died in Bristol on 1 June 1917. He married a singer, Alice Mary Wensley, and they had one daughter, Gertrude.
By profession he was a clerk in a soap works. As a poet he adopted the combined names of his mother and his wife as his pseudonym, Shapcott Wensley. He wrote lyrics for songs and librettos for cantatas. Among the composers he worked for were Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...

 and John Henry Maunder. Many of his texts were written on commission of the publishing house Novello

Novello

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Works

• Summer on the River: a cantata for female voices, music by F. H. Cowen
  Frederic Hymen Cowen
  Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen , was a British pianist, conductor and composer.-Early years:Cowen was born Hymen Frederick Cohen at 90 Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica, the fifth and last child of Frederick Augustus Cohen and Emily Cohen née Davis. His siblings were Elizabeth Rose Cohen ; actress,...
  
   (1893)
• The Banner of St. George: a ballad for chorus and orchestra, music by Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
   (1896)
• The Gate of Life: a dramatic cantata, music by Franco Leoni
  Franco Leoni
  Franco Leoni was an Italian opera composer. After training in Milan, he made most of his career in England, composing for Covent Garden and West End theatres. He is best known for the opera L'Oracolo, written for Covent Garden but taken up successfully by the Metropolitan Opera in New York...
  
   (1898)
• The Story of Bethlehem: a short cantata, music by John E. West (1899)
• The Lark and the Nightingale: part-song for SATB, music by Reginald Somerville
  Reginald Somerville
  Reginald Somerville was an English actor and composer. He is known for writing many drawing-room ballads such as "God Sends the Night", "Yestereve", "Zaida: A Song of the Desert" and "The Lark and the Nightingale", as well as a handful of operas.-Biography:Somerville received musical training...
  
   (1900)
• Olivet to Calvary: a sacred cantata, music by J. H. Maunder (1904)
• Lo! Christ the Lord is born: a Christmas carol, music by Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
   (1909)
• The Call of England: song, music by Albert Ham (1917)
• The Song of the Gale: part-song for SATB, music by Myles B. Foster (1924)
• While the Earth remaineth: cantata for SATB, organ, music by J. H. Maunder (?)