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John G. C. Brainard

1796–1828

John G. C. Brainard (1796–1828) was a Connecticut poet and newspaper editor, whose Occasional Pieces of Poetry appeared in 1825.

Griswold included 18 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 (18)

  1. Jerusalem
  2. On Connecticut River
  3. On the Death of Mr. Woodward, at Edinburgh
  4. On a Late Loss
  5. Sonnet to the Sea-Serpent
  6. The Fall of Niagara
  7. On the Death of a Friend
  8. Epithalamium
  9. The Deep
  10. Mr. Merry's Lament for "Long Tom"
  11. The Indian Summer
  12. Stanzas
  13. The Storm of War
  14. The Guerilla
  15. The Sea-Bird's Song
  16. To the Daughter of a Friend
  17. Salmon River
  18. On the Death of Commodore Oliver H. Perry

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