Poetry Codex

American

William W. Lord

1818–1892

William W. Lord (1818–1892) was a poet and clergyman from western New York, the son of a Presbyterian minister.

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 (6)

  1. Keats
  2. To My Sister
  3. The Brook
  4. A Rime
  5. On the Defeat of Henry Clay
  6. To Rosina Pico

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