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American

Albert Pike

1809–1891

Albert Pike (1809–1891) was a Boston-born poet, lawyer and soldier who settled in Arkansas; he later became a Confederate general and a leading figure in Freemasonry.

Griswold included 11 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 (12)

  1. To Neptune
  2. To Apollo
  3. To Diana
  4. To Mercury
  5. To Bacchus
  6. To Somnus
  7. To the Mocking-Bird
  8. To Spring
  9. Lines Written on the Rocky Mountains
  10. Buena Vista
  11. Dixie
  12. The Widowed Heart

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