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George Henry Boker

1823–1890

George Henry Boker (1823–1890) was an American poet and dramatist, born in Philadelphia. His blank-verse tragedy Francesca da Rimini (1855) is the best known of his plays, and he later served as United States minister to Turkey and to Russia.

During the Civil War he wrote patriotic Union verse, collected in Poems of the War (1864), including “The Black Regiment” and “Dirge for a Soldier”.

Poems (23)

  1. To America
  2. To England
  3. The Black Regiment
  4. Dirge for a Soldier
  5. The Song of the Earth
  6. A Ballad of Sir John Franklin
  7. Ode to England
  8. Lida
  9. Sonnet
  10. Upon the Hill before Centreville
  11. On Board the “Cumberland”
  12. The Sword-Bearer
  13. The “Varuna”
  14. The Crossing at Fredericksburg
  15. Zagonyi
  16. The Cruise of the Monitor
  17. The Ballad of New Orleans
  18. Hooker's Across
  19. Before Vicksburg
  20. The Battle of Lookout Mountain
  21. The Ferry
  22. To My Lady
  23. Countess Laura

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