Poetry Codex

American

William B. Walter

c. 1796–1823

William B. Walter (c. 1796–1823) was a young American poet of a New England clerical family, a descendant of Nehemiah Walter and Increase Mather.

Griswold included 2 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 (2)

  1. Where Is He!
  2. Extract from "Lines to an Infant"

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