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American

John G. Saxe

1816–1887

John G. Saxe (1816–1887) was a Vermont poet and humorist, born in Highgate, Vermont.

Griswold included 4 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 (28)

  1. The Proud Miss MacBride: A Legend of Gotham
  2. Fashion
  3. Association
  4. Bereavement
  5. The Briefless Barrister
  6. Sonnet to a Clam
  7. Comic Miseries
  8. Phaethon; or, the Amateur Coachman
  9. On a Recent Classic Controversy
  10. Epigram: Quoth David to Daniel--"Why is it these scholars
  11. On an Ill-Read Lawyer
  12. On an Ugly Person Sitting for a Daguerreotype
  13. Woman's Will
  14. Family Quarrels
  15. How Cyrus Laid the Cable
  16. My Familiar
  17. Too Candid by Half
  18. Do I Love Thee?
  19. To Lesbia
  20. Early Rising
  21. The Puzzled Census-Taker
  22. Wouldn't You Like to Know?
  23. To My Love
  24. Darling, Tell Me Yes
  25. Pyramus and Thisbe
  26. Death and Cupid
  27. Rhyme of the Rail
  28. "Justine, You Love Me Not"

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