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James Gates Percival

1795–1856

James Gates Percival (1795–1856) was a Connecticut poet, physician and geologist, born in Berlin, Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale.

Griswold included 23 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 (25)

  1. Conclusion of the "Dream of a Day"
  2. The Poet
  3. Night
  4. Choriambic Melody
  5. Sappho
  6. The Festive Evening
  7. The Sun
  8. Consumption
  9. To the Eagle
  10. Prevalence of Poetry
  11. Clouds
  12. Morning Among the Hills
  13. The Deserted Wife
  14. The Coral Grove
  15. Decline of the Imagination
  16. Genius Slumbering
  17. Genius Waking
  18. New England
  19. To Seneca Lake
  20. The Flight of Time
  21. It Is Great for Our Country to Die
  22. Extract from Prometheus
  23. Home
  24. Apostrophe to the Island of Cuba
  25. May

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