Poetry Codex

American

William D. Gallagher

1808–1894

William D. Gallagher (1808–1894) was a poet and journalist, born in Philadelphia, who grew up in Cincinnati and edited Ohio and Kentucky papers.

Griswold included 11 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 (13)

  1. Conservatism
  2. The Invalid
  3. The Early Lost
  4. Fifty Years Ago
  5. Truth and Freedom
  6. August
  7. Spring Verses
  8. May
  9. Our Early Days
  10. The Labourer
  11. The Mothers of the West
  12. The Cardinal Bird
  13. Autumn in the West

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