Poetry Codex

American

Rufus Dawes

1803–1859

Rufus Dawes (1803–1859) was a poet of an old Massachusetts family, author of Geraldine (1839) and other poems.

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 (6)

  1. Lancaster
  2. Anne Boleyn
  3. Sunrise, from Mount Washington
  4. Spirit of Beauty
  5. Love Unchangeable
  6. Extract from "Geraldine"

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