Poetry Codex

American

George H. Colton

1818–1847

George H. Colton (1818–1847) was a poet and founding editor of the American Review, born in Westford, New York, and the author of the poem Tecumseh (1842).

Griswold included 3 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 (3)

  1. The Death of Tecumseh
  2. A Forest Scene
  3. To the Night-Wind in Autumn

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