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John H. Bryant

1807–1902

John Howard Bryant (1807–1902) was a poet and farmer, born in Cummington, Massachusetts, and a younger brother of William Cullen Bryant, who settled in Illinois.

Griswold included 10 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 (12)

  1. The New England Pilgrim's Funeral
  2. A Recollection
  3. My Native Village
  4. From "A Day in Autumn"
  5. On Finding a Fountain in a Secluded Part of a Forest
  6. The Traveller's Return
  7. The Indian Summer
  8. The Blind Restored to Sight
  9. Sonnet I
  10. Sonnet II
  11. Winter
  12. The Little Cloud

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