Poetry Codex

American

Alfred B. Street

1811–1881

Alfred B. Street (1811–1881) was a poet born at Poughkeepsie, New York, later State Librarian of New York.

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 (7)

  1. The Gray Forest-Eagle
  2. Fowling
  3. A Forest Walk
  4. The Settler
  5. An American Forest in Spring
  6. The Lost Hunter
  7. The Loon

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