Poetry Codex

American

Charles Sprague

1791–1875

Charles Sprague (1791–1875) was a Boston banker and poet, born in Boston, known for his Shakspeare Ode (1823) and the poem Curiosity.

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. Curiosity
  2. Shakspeare Ode
  3. The Brothers
  4. Art
  5. Look on This Picture
  6. Centennial Ode
  7. I See Thee Still
  8. Lines on the Death of M. S. C
  9. The Family Meeting
  10. The Winged Worshippers
  11. Dedication Hymn
  12. To My Cigar

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