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William Gilmore Simms

1806–1870

William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) was a Charleston, South Carolina, novelist, historian and poet, author of Guy Rivers and The Yemassee.

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.

Poems (12)

  1. The Slain Eagle
  2. The Brooklet
  3. The Shaded Water
  4. To the Breeze
  5. The Lost Pleiad
  6. The Edge of the Swamp
  7. Changes of Home
  8. The Swamp Fox
  9. The Battle of Eutaw
  10. The Decay of a People
  11. Song in March
  12. The Grape-Vine Swing

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