Poetry Codex

American

George W. Bethune

1805–1862

George W. Bethune (1805–1862) was a Dutch Reformed minister, born in New York, who served in Utica, Philadelphia and Brooklyn and edited an edition of Walton's Compleat Angler.

Griswold included 4 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 (4)

  1. To My Mother
  2. Night Study
  3. To My Wife
  4. It Is Not Death to Die

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