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American

Philip Pendleton Cooke

1816–1850

Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816–1850) was a Virginia lawyer and poet, born in Martinsburg, and author of Froissart Ballads (1847).

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 (3)

  1. To My Daughter Lily
  2. Life in the Autumn Woods
  3. Florence Vane

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