Poetry Codex

American

Richard Henry Dana

1787–1879

Richard Henry Dana (1787–1879) was a Boston poet, critic and lawyer, a founder of the North American Review and the author of The Buccaneer (1827). He was the father of the author of Two Years Before the Mast.

Griswold included 6 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 (8)

  1. The Ocean
  2. Daybreak
  3. Intimations of Immortality
  4. The Little Beach-Bird
  5. The Moss Supplicateth for the Poet
  6. Washington Allston
  7. Immortality
  8. The Chanting Cherubs

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