Poetry Codex

American

Henry W. Parker

b. 1825

Henry W. Parker (born 1825) was a poet and Presbyterian pastor in Brooklyn, born in Danby, New York, and a graduate of Amherst College (1843).

Griswold included 6 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 (6)

  1. Vision of Shelley's Death
  2. The Dead-Watch
  3. Summer Lights
  4. Summer's Essence
  5. A Street
  6. Snow in the Village

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