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Willis Gaylord Clark

1808–1841

Willis Gaylord Clark (1808–1841) was a poet and editor, born at Otisco, New York, who edited the Philadelphia Gazette and wrote for the Knickerbocker magazine, which was edited by his twin brother Lewis.

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. A Lament
  2. Memory
  3. Song of May
  4. Death of the First-Born
  5. Summer
  6. The Early Dead
  7. The Signs of God
  8. Euthanasia
  9. An Invitation
  10. The Burial-Place at Laurel Hill
  11. A Contrast
  12. The Faded One
  13. A Remembrance

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