Henry Abbey

Henry Abbey (1842–1911) was an American poet, born at Rondout, New York. He worked for some years as a journalist in New York City and afterwards as a merchant in his native town, and published May Dreams (1862), Ballads of Good Deeds (1872), The City of Success (1883) and a collected Poems (1886).

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900).