Robert Collyer

Robert Collyer (1823–1912) was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, worked as a blacksmith, emigrated to America and became a Unitarian minister in Chicago and New York. He also wrote verse in Yorkshire dialect and English.

The poem here is taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900).