Harry Lyman Koopman

Harry Lyman Koopman (1860–1937), born in Freeport, Maine, was an American librarian and poet. A graduate of Colby College, he became librarian of Brown University in 1893, and his verse appeared in Orestes, and Other Poems (1888), Woman’s Will, with Other Poems (1888) and Morrow-Songs (1898).

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