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Charles T. Brooks

1813–1883

Charles T. Brooks (1813–1883) was a Unitarian minister in Newport, Rhode Island, born in Salem, Massachusetts, and a translator from the German.

Griswold included 5 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 (7)

  1. Alabama
  2. To the Mississippi
  3. Our Country—Right or Wrong
  4. A Sabbath Morning, at Pettaquamscutt
  5. Sunrise on the Sea-Coast
  6. A Plea for Flood Ireson
  7. The Great Voices

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