Poetry Codex

American

Andrews Norton

1786–1853

Andrews Norton (1786–1853) was a Unitarian theologian and biblical scholar at Harvard, born in Hingham, Massachusetts.

Griswold included 15 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 (15)

  1. On the Death of Charles Eliot
  2. A Summer Shower
  3. Hymn
  4. To Mrs. ——, on Her Departure for Europe
  5. Hymn for the Dedication of a Church
  6. Fortitude
  7. The Close of the Year
  8. On Listening to a Cricket
  9. A Summer Night
  10. A Winter Morning
  11. The Parting
  12. On the Death of a Friend
  13. To a Friend After Her Marriage
  14. Funeral Hymn
  15. Oh! Ne'er upon My Grave Be Shed

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