Poetry Codex

American

Thomas Buchanan Read

1822–1872

Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) was a Pennsylvania-born poet and portrait painter, later the author of Sheridan's Ride.

Griswold included 9 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. The Brickmaker
  2. The Stranger on the Sill
  3. A Song
  4. The Closing Scene
  5. An Invitation: To George Hammersley
  6. My Hermitage
  7. Passing the Icebergs
  8. Midnight
  9. The Nameless
  10. The Flag of the Constellation
  11. Sheridan’s Ride
  12. The Rising
  13. Valley Forge
  14. Blennerhassett's Island
  15. The Attack
  16. The Eagle and Vulture
  17. Lines to a Blind Girl
  18. Drifting
  19. The Reaper's Dream
  20. The Angler

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