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Lydia Huntley Sigourney

1791–1865

Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865) was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and lived most of her life in Hartford. She was among the best-known American poets of her day, nicknamed the "Sweet Singer of Hartford", and published some fifty books of verse and prose as well as many contributions to periodicals.

The poems here are the "In Memoriam" section of The Man of Uz, and Other Poems (Hartford, 1862), a sequence of elegies on neighbours, clergymen, children and public figures of Hartford and beyond who died between 1859 and 1862, a form of memorial verse for which she was especially known.

Poems (67)

  1. Rev. Dr. T. M. Cooley
  2. Madam Olivia Phelps
  3. Martha Agnes Bonner
  4. Madam Whiting
  5. Denison Olmsted, LL.D.
  6. Herbert Foss
  7. Mrs. Charles N. Cadwallader
  8. Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander
  9. Mrs. Joseph Morgan
  10. Alice Beckwith
  11. Mary Shipman Deming
  12. Rev. Dr. F. W. Hatch
  13. Mrs. Payne
  14. Mrs. Mary Mildenstein Robertson
  15. Madam Williams
  16. Mr. Samuel Ogden
  17. Mr. George Beach
  18. Miss Margaret C. Brown
  19. Miss Frances Wyman Tracy
  20. Deacon Normand Smith
  21. Mrs. Helen Tyler Beach
  22. Mrs. Elizabeth Harris
  23. Miss Anna M. Seymour
  24. Caleb Hazen Talcott
  25. Miss Jane Penelope Whiting
  26. Miss Anna Freeman
  27. Madam Pond
  28. Annie Seymour Robinson
  29. Mrs. Georgiana Ives Comstock
  30. Wentworth Alexander
  31. Mrs. Harvey Seymour
  32. Mrs. Frederick Tyler
  33. Miss Laura Kingsbury
  34. Governor and Mrs. Trumbull
  35. Mrs. Emily Ellsworth
  36. Rev. Dr. Stephen Jewitt
  37. Miss Delia Woodruff Godding
  38. Miss Sara K. Taylor
  39. Mr. John Warburton
  40. Rev. Henry Albertson Post
  41. Miss Caroline L. Griffin
  42. Mr. Normand Burr
  43. Hon. Thomas S. Williams
  44. Col. H. L. Miller
  45. Col. Samuel Colt
  46. Madam Hannah Lathrop
  47. Henrietta Selden Colt
  48. The Little Brothers
  49. Mr. D. F. Robinson
  50. Mr. Samuel Tudor
  51. Henry Howard Comstock
  52. Rev. Dr. David Smith
  53. Miss Emily B. Parish
  54. Harriet Allen Ely
  55. Miss Catharine Ball
  56. Mrs. Morris Collins
  57. Mrs. Margaret Walbridge
  58. The Brothers Buell
  59. Mr. Phillip Ripley
  60. Richard Ely Collins
  61. Miss Elizabeth Brinley
  62. Mr. John A. Taintor
  63. Columbus
  64. California
  65. Indian Names
  66. The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
  67. The Return of Napoleon from St. Helena

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