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William Croswell Doane

1832–1913

William Croswell Doane (1832–1913) was an Episcopal priest, later the first bishop of Albany, born in Boston, the son of Bishop George W. Doane.

Griswold included 3 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 (4)

  1. Gray Cliff, Newport
  2. My Father's Fifty-Third Birth-Day
  3. Shells
  4. Ancient of Days

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