Poetry Codex

American

J. H. Bright

1804–1837

J. H. Bright (1804–1837) was a poet born as Jonathan Huntington Bright in Salem, Massachusetts, who lived in New York, Albany and Richmond and died in New Orleans.

Griswold included 3 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 (3)

  1. The Vision of Death
  2. He Wedded Again
  3. Song

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