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American

Robert C. Sands

1799–1832

Robert C. Sands (1799–1832) was a New York lawyer, journalist and poet, co-author of Yamoyden and an editor of the Atlantic Magazine.

Griswold included 13 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. Proem to Yamoyden
  2. Dream of the Princess Papantzin
  3. Evening
  4. Weehawken
  5. The Green Isle of Lovers
  6. The Dead of 1832
  7. Parting
  8. Conclusion to Yamoyden
  9. Invocation
  10. Good-Night
  11. From a Monody on J. W. Eastburn
  12. To the Manitto of Dreams

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