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American

Park Benjamin

1809–1864

Park Benjamin (1809–1864) was a poet and editor born in British Guiana, active in the New York and Boston magazines of the 1830s and 1840s.

Griswold included 17 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 (19)

  1. Gold
  2. Upon Seeing a Portrait of a Lady, Painted by Giovanni C. Thompson
  3. The Stormy Petrel
  4. The Nautilus
  5. To One Beloved
  6. The Tired Hunter
  7. The Departed
  8. I Am Not Old
  9. The Dove's Errand
  10. How Cheery Are the Mariners!
  11. Lines Spoken by a Blind Boy
  12. The Elysian Isle
  13. A Great Name
  14. Indolence
  15. Sport
  16. To My Sister
  17. To a Lady with a Bouquet
  18. To Arms
  19. The Old Sexton

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