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St. John Honeywood

1763–1798

St. John Honeywood (1763–1798) was an American lawyer and poet, a native of Leicester, Massachusetts, educated at Yale College, who taught at Schenectady and practised law in New York State.

Griswold included 4 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. Crimes and Punishments
  2. A Radical Song of 1786
  3. Reflections on Seeing a Bull Slain in the Country
  4. Impromptu on an Order to Rill the Dogs in Albany
  5. Darby and Joan

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