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Frederic Lawrence Knowles

1869–1905

Frederic Lawrence Knowles (1869–1905) was an American poet and anthologist, born at Lawrence, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1894 and Harvard in 1896, and worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin, L. C. Page and Dana Estes, dying in 1905.

He edited The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics, a major source for this archive, and published two books of his own verse, On Life’s Stairway (1900) and Love Triumphant (1904).

Poems (10)

  1. Love Triumphant
  2. On a Fly-Leaf of Burns' Songs
  3. Nature: the Artist
  4. A Pasture
  5. If Love Were Jester at the Court of Death
  6. To Mother Nature
  7. Laus Mortis
  8. A Memory
  9. A Song of Desire
  10. The Last Word

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