George Houghton

George Washington Wright Houghton (1850–1891) was an American poet, born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died at Yonkers, New York. He lived in New York, where he edited a trade paper.

His books of verse include Songs from over the Sea (1874), The Legend of St. Olaf's Kirk (1880) and Niagara and Other Poems (1882). Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.