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John Pierpont

1785–1866

John Pierpont (1785–1866) was a Unitarian minister, poet and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and author of Airs of Palestine (1816). He was long minister of the Hollis Street Church in Boston.

Griswold included 14 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 (20)

  1. Passing Away
  2. Ode for the Charlestown Centennial Celebration
  3. My Child
  4. Ode for the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association
  5. Her Chosen Spot
  6. The Pilgrim Fathers
  7. Plymouth Dedication Hymn
  8. The Exile at Rest
  9. Jerusalem
  10. The Power of Music
  11. Obsequies of Spurzheim
  12. The Seaman's Bethel
  13. The Sparkling Bowl
  14. Ode for the Fourth of July
  15. Warren's Address
  16. On Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument
  17. The Kidnapping of Sims
  18. The Fugitive Slave’s Apostrophe to the North Star
  19. The Ballot
  20. Not on the Battle-Field

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