Poetry Codex

American

William Ross Wallace

1819–1881

William Ross Wallace (1819–1881) was a poet born in Lexington, Kentucky, who lived in New York and is remembered for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World.

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. Rest
  2. Wordsworth
  3. The Mounds of America
  4. Greenwood Cemetery
  5. Hymn to the Hudson River
  6. Chant of a Soul
  7. The Gods of Old: An Ode

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