Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915) was a Scottish poet who spent most of his short life in England. Handsome, bright, and athletic, his father was a philospher and his mother homeschooled Charles and his sister and twin brother. A cross-country runner in college, Charles particularly enjoyed running in the rain, a passion he references in several of his poems. This promising young poet’s career was cut tragically short when he was killed by a sniper during World War I; only twenty years old, his body was never found. A collection of all the poems Charles had written, fewer than forty, was published the year after his death and sold out six printings.