Poetry Codex

American

John Esten Cooke

1830–1886

John Esten Cooke (1830–1886) was a Virginia novelist and poet, born in Winchester, brother of Philip Pendleton Cooke.

Griswold included 4 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 (5)

  1. Extracts from "Stanzas"
  2. Clouds
  3. May
  4. Memories
  5. The Band in the Pines

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