Poetry Codex

American

William H. Burleigh

1812–1871

William H. Burleigh (1812–1871) was a Connecticut-born abolitionist and temperance poet and newspaper editor.

Griswold included 13 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 (13)

  1. Elegiac Stanzas
  2. Let There Be Light
  3. June
  4. Spring
  5. Requiem
  6. Stanzas Written on Visiting My Birthplace
  7. To H. A. B.
  8. Song
  9. The Brook
  10. The Times
  11. Solitude
  12. Rain
  13. The Pilgrim Fathers

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