American

Richard Coe

b. 1821


Richard Coe (born 1821) was a Philadelphia poet of a Quaker family, a merchant by profession, whose Poems appeared in 1851.

Griswold included 2 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.

  1. Smiles and Tears
  2. Emblems

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