Poetry Codex

American

John Quincy Adams

1767–1848

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) was the sixth President of the United States, and a diplomat, congressman and occasional poet.

Griswold included 3 of his poems in The Poets and Poetry of America (16th edition, Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1855), the anthology from which the poems here are taken.

Poems (5)

  1. The Wants of Man
  2. The Plague in the Forest
  3. To a Bereaved Mother
  4. To Sally
  5. The Lip and the Heart

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