Charles Henry Webb

Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) was an American humorist, journalist and poet, born at Rouse’s Point, New York. He went to sea as a boy, wrote for the New York Times and Tribune under the name “John Paul”, and founded the San Francisco weekly The Californian in 1864.

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900).