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Bayard Taylor

1825–1878

Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) was an American poet, travel writer and translator, born at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. His accounts of journeys through Europe, Africa, and Asia made him a celebrated figure, and his verse translation of Goethe’s Faust (1870–71) was long standard.

He served as United States minister to Germany and died at Berlin in 1878. His lyrics, such as the “Bedouin Song”, were popular in his lifetime.

Poems (27)

  1. Bedouin Song
  2. The Song of the Camp
  3. In Italy
  4. Metempsychosis of the Pine
  5. The Bison-Track
  6. The Arab to the Palm
  7. Kubleh
  8. Charmian
  9. The Poet in the East
  10. Kilimandjaro
  11. An Oriental Idyl
  12. Hassan to His Mare
  13. The Phantom
  14. Moan, Ye Wild Winds
  15. Through Baltimore
  16. Lincoln at Gettysburg
  17. The National Ode
  18. Ariel in the Cloven Pine
  19. Song
  20. The Quaker Widow
  21. The Sunshine of the Gods
  22. To M. T.
  23. The Promissory Note
  24. Nubia
  25. Possession
  26. Storm Song
  27. A Story for a Child

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