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American

Albert G. Greene

1802–1868

Albert G. Greene (1802–1868) was a Rhode Island lawyer and judge, born in Providence and a graduate of Brown University, and the author of the humorous ballad Old Grimes.

Griswold included 5 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 (5)

  1. The Baron's Last Banquet
  2. To the Weathercock on Our Steeple
  3. Adelheid
  4. Old Grimes
  5. Oh, Think Not That the Bosom's Light

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