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Richard Henry Stoddard

1825–1903

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) was an American poet and critic, born at Hingham, Massachusetts. He worked in an iron foundry as a young man, taught himself to write, and later became literary editor of the New York Mail and Express.

He was a central figure of the New York literary circle of his day, alongside Bayard Taylor and Edmund Clarence Stedman, and his polished lyrics were widely anthologised.

Poems (33)

  1. Song
  2. The Flight of Youth
  3. At Last
  4. Birds
  5. Hymn to the Beautiful
  6. Spring
  7. The Witch's Whelp
  8. A Household Dirge
  9. Leonatus
  10. A Dirge
  11. The Shadow of the Hand
  12. A Serenade
  13. The Yellow Moon
  14. Invocation to Sleep
  15. At the Window
  16. At Rest
  17. Men of the North and West
  18. Colonel Ellsworth
  19. The Little Drummer
  20. Twilight on Sumter
  21. Abraham Lincoln
  22. Songs
  23. The Lover
  24. Adsum
  25. Mors et Vita
  26. A Gazelle
  27. The Flight of the Arrow
  28. The Divan
  29. The Dying Lover
  30. The Jar
  31. The Sea
  32. Threescore and Ten
  33. Brahma's Answer

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