Poetry Codex

American

William B. Tappan

1794–1849

William B. Tappan (1794–1849) was a religious poet, born in Beverly, Massachusetts, who worked for the American Sunday School Union.

Griswold included 4 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 (4)

  1. The Twenty Thousand Children of the Sabbath-Schools in New York, Celebrating Together the Fourth of July, 1839
  2. Song of the Three Hundred Thousand Drunkards in the United States
  3. Heaven
  4. To the Ship of the Line Pennsylvania

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