Poetry Codex

American

William Pitt Palmer

1805–1884

William Pitt Palmer (1805–1884) was an American poet of New York, the son of a sea captain, whose verses appeared in the magazines of his day.

Griswold included 3 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 (4)

  1. Light
  2. Lines to a Chrysalis
  3. The Home Valentine
  4. The Smack in School

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