American

J. O. Rockwell

1807–1831


James Otis Rockwell (1807–1831) was a Connecticut-born journalist and poet, apprenticed as a printer in Utica, who died young.

Griswold included 7 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.

  1. The Sum of Life
  2. To Ann
  3. The Lost at Sea
  4. The Death-Bed of Beauty
  5. The Prisoner for Debt
  6. To a Wave

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