Poetry Codex

American

George W. Dewey

b. 1818

George W. Dewey (born 1818) was a poet born in Baltimore who lived from boyhood in Philadelphia and contributed to its magazines.

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. The Rustic Shrine
  2. Blind Louise
  3. A Memory
  4. A Blighted May
  5. To an Old Acquaintance
  6. The Shady Side

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