Herbert Bashford

Herbert Bashford (1871–1920), born in Sioux City, Iowa, was an American librarian and poet who became state librarian of Washington. He wrote of the Pacific Northwest in Nature Stories of the Northwest and Songs from Puget Sea (1898).

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