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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836–1907

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) was an American poet, novelist and editor, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He edited The Atlantic Monthly from 1881 to 1890 and wrote the boyhood memoir The Story of a Bad Boy (1869).

In verse he was admired for small, polished lyrics and epigrams, which he refined steadily over his career.

Poems (34)

  1. Memory
  2. “Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme”
  3. Maple Leaves
  4. Pessimist and Optimist
  5. Destiny
  6. Prescience
  7. A Mood
  8. On an Intaglio Head of Minerva
  9. When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan
  10. Fredericksburg
  11. By the Potomac
  12. The Bells at Midnight
  13. An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial
  14. Unguarded Gates
  15. Appreciation
  16. To Hafiz
  17. Palabras Cariñosas
  18. Heredity
  19. Identity
  20. A Shadow of the Night
  21. Masks
  22. Tennyson
  23. Guilielmus Rex
  24. Sargent's Portrait of Edwin Booth at "The Players"
  25. Thalia
  26. A Petition
  27. Baby Bell
  28. The Flight of the Goddess
  29. Nocturne
  30. A Turkish Legend
  31. The World's Way
  32. A Hint from Herrick
  33. Forever and a Day
  34. L'Eau Dormante

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