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American

James Freeman Clarke

1810–1888

James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) was a Unitarian minister and writer, born in Hanover, New Hampshire, a Harvard graduate and a friend of the Transcendentalists.

Griswold included 8 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 (9)

  1. Triformis Diana
  2. Cana
  3. The Genuine Portrait
  4. White-Capped Waves
  5. The Poet
  6. Jacob's Well
  7. The Violet
  8. To a Bunch of Flowers
  9. Rabia

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