Poetry Codex

American

Henry B. Hirst

1813–1874

Henry B. Hirst (1813–1874) was a Philadelphia lawyer and poet, author of Endymion (1848).

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 (6)

  1. The Last Tilt
  2. Berenice
  3. The Lost Pleiad
  4. No More
  5. Astarte
  6. The Fringilla Melodia

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