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American

James Aldrich

1810–1856

James Aldrich (1810–1856) was an American poet, and has no connection with the better-known Thomas Bailey Aldrich. He is remembered almost entirely for one short poem, “A Death-bed”, widely reprinted in nineteenth-century anthologies.

Little is recorded about his life, and this archive makes no claim beyond his dates and the single poem Knowles printed.

Poems (8)

  1. A Death-bed
  2. Morn at Sea
  3. My Mother's Grave
  4. A Spring-Day Walk
  5. To One Far Away
  6. Beatrice
  7. Lines
  8. The Dreaming Girl

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