Robert Lowell (Robert Traill Spence Lowell)

Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816–1891) was an American Episcopal clergyman, schoolmaster, novelist and poet, best known for The Relief of Lucknow. Eggleston prints his poem The Massachusetts Line under the name Robert Lowell.

The poems here are taken from American War Ballads and Lyrics, edited by George Cary Eggleston (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889), where it is printed under his or her name: The Massachusetts Line.