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Harrison Smith Morris

1856–1948


Harrison Smith Morris (1856–1948) was an American poet, editor and arts administrator, born in Philadelphia. He was managing editor of Lippincott's Magazine and for many years managing director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

He knew Walt Whitman in the poet's last years and wrote of him. Stedman's An American Anthology (1900) printed his sonnet to Whitman and his poem "Destiny" (1899), among others.

  1. Destiny
  2. The Lonely-Bird
  3. A Pine-Tree Buoy
  4. Mohammed and Seid
  5. Walt Whitman
  6. Fickle Hope
  7. June

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