Poetry Codex

American

George W. Doane

1799–1859

George W. Doane (1799–1859) was an Episcopal clergyman, bishop of New Jersey from 1832, and the author of Songs by the Way (1824).

Griswold included 10 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 (11)

  1. On a Very Old Wedding-Ring
  2. Malleus Domini
  3. Stand, as an Anvil, When It Is Beaten Upon
  4. That Silent Moon
  5. Thermopylae
  6. The Robin Redbreast
  7. What Is That, Mother?
  8. A Cherub
  9. Lines by the Lake Side
  10. The Christian's Death
  11. Evening

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