Poetry Codex

American

James G. Brooks

1801–1841

James G. Brooks (1801–1841) was a New York journalist and poet, born at Red Hook, New York, and a graduate of Union College.

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 (5)

  1. Greece— 1832
  2. To the Dying Year
  3. To the Autumn Leaf
  4. The Last Song
  5. Joy and Sorrow

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