Josiah Gilbert Holland

Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) was an American writer and editor, born at Belchertown, Massachusetts. He trained as a physician, joined the Springfield Republican in 1849, and wrote popular prose under the name “Timothy Titcomb”; his verse includes Bitter-Sweet (1858) and Kathrina (1867). He helped found Scribner’s Monthly in 1870.

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900).