Poetry Codex

American

George P. Morris

1802–1864

George P. Morris (1802–1864) was a Philadelphia-born New York editor and songwriter, co-editor of the New-York Mirror and author of Woodman, Spare That Tree.

Griswold included 11 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 (143)

  1. I Never Have Been False to Thee
  2. Woman
  3. We Were Boys Together
  4. The West
  5. Land-Ho!
  6. The Chieftain's Daughter
  7. Near the Lake
  8. When Other Friends Are Round Thee
  9. Woodman, Spare That Tree
  10. Where Hudson's Wave
  11. The Pastor's Daughter
  12. The Retort
  13. The Deserted Bride
  14. The Main-Truck; Or, A Leap For Life
  15. Poetry
  16. The Croton Ode
  17. Fragment of an Indian Poem
  18. The Cottager's Welcome
  19. Land of Washington
  20. The Flag of Our Union
  21. Lines After the Manner of Olden Time
  22. The Dream of Love
  23. I'm With You Once Again
  24. Oh, Would That She Were Here
  25. The Sword and the Staff
  26. Thy Will Be Done
  27. Song of Marion's Men
  28. Janet McRea
  29. Lisette
  30. My Mother's Bible
  31. The Dog-Star Rages
  32. Legend of the Mohawk
  33. The Ball-Room Belle
  34. Oh, Boatman, Haste
  35. Funeral Hymn
  36. O'er the Mountains
  37. Rosabel
  38. Thy Tyrant Sway
  39. A Hero of the Revolution
  40. Rhyme and Reason: An Apologue
  41. Starlight Recollections
  42. Wearies My Love of My Letters?
  43. Fare Thee Well, Love
  44. Thou Hast Woven the Spell
  45. Bessie Bell
  46. The Day is Now Dawning, Love
  47. Silent Grief
  48. Love Thee, Dearest?
  49. I Love the Night
  50. The Miniature
  51. Lines on a Poet
  52. The Bacchanal
  53. Twenty Years Ago
  54. National Anthem
  55. Look From Thy Lattice, Love
  56. She Loved Him
  57. The Suitors
  58. St. Agnes' Shrine
  59. Western Refrain
  60. The Prairie on Fire
  61. The Evergreen
  62. The May-Queen
  63. Venetian Serenade
  64. The Whip-Poor-Will
  65. The Exile to His Sister
  66. Margaretta
  67. The Colonel
  68. The Sweep's Carol
  69. The Seasons of Love
  70. My Woodland Bride
  71. Oh, Think of Me
  72. My Bark is Out Upon the Sea
  73. Will Nobody Marry Me?
  74. The Star of Love
  75. Well-A-Day
  76. Not Married Yet
  77. Lady of England
  78. Oh, This Love
  79. Mary
  80. The Beam of Devotion
  81. The Welcome and Farewell
  82. 'Tis Now the Promised Hour
  83. The Songs of Home
  84. Masonic Hymn
  85. The Dismissed
  86. Lord of the Castle
  87. The Fallen Brave
  88. Song of the Troubadour
  89. Champions of Liberty
  90. The Hunter's Carol
  91. Washington's Monument
  92. The Sister's Appeal
  93. Song of the Reapers
  94. Walter Gay
  95. Grounds For Divorce
  96. Temperance Song
  97. Boat-Song
  98. Willie
  99. The Rock of the Pilgrims
  100. Years Ago
  101. The Soldier's Welcome Home
  102. The Origin of Yankee Doodle
  103. Lines on the Burial of Mrs. Mary L. Ward
  104. New-York in 1826
  105. The Hero's Legacy
  106. What Can It Mean
  107. Au Revoir
  108. To My Absent Daughter
  109. Song of the Sewing Machine
  110. My Lady Waits For Me
  111. Music
  112. The Millionaire
  113. In Memory of Charles H. Sandford
  114. Seventy-Six
  115. A Parody
  116. The Stag-Hunt
  117. Deliver Us From Evil
  118. Union
  119. We Part For Ever
  120. Come to Me in Cherry Time
  121. On the Death of Mrs. Jessie Willis
  122. Thank God for Pleasant Weather
  123. The Master's Song
  124. The Missing Ship
  125. Jeannie Marsh
  126. Lucy
  127. Epitaph
  128. In Memory of John W. Francis, Jr
  129. Nature's Noblemen
  130. A Wall-Street Lyric
  131. King Cotton
  132. Words Adapted to a Spanish Melody
  133. Love in Exile
  134. To the Evening Star
  135. Welcome Home
  136. The Sycamore Shade
  137. Up the Hudson
  138. Only Thine
  139. Epigram on Reading Grim's Attack upon Clinton
  140. On Hearing that Morse Did Not Invent the Telegraph
  141. Address for the Benefit of William Dunlop
  142. Address for the Benefit of J. Sheridan Knowles
  143. Address for the Benefit of Henry Placide

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