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American

Carlos Wilcox

1794–1827

Carlos Wilcox (1794–1827) was a Congregational minister and poet, born in Newport, New Hampshire. His poems were collected posthumously in 1828.

Griswold included 10 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 (10)

  1. Spring in New England
  2. A Summer Noon
  3. September
  4. Sunset in September
  5. Summer Evening Lightning
  6. The Castle of Imagination
  7. Rousseau and Cowper
  8. The Cure of Melancholy
  9. Sights and Sounds of the Night
  10. Live for Eternity

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