I lived from 1841-1928. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
Links of interest include http://oldpoetry.com/column/show/124
Popular poetry
- Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing,
Poised upon slender tip, and quivering15 lines - Sweet, sweet, sweet! O happy that I am!
(Listen to the meadow-larks, across the fields that sing!)15 lines - In ended days, a child, I trod thy sands,
The sands unbuilded, rank with brush and brier31 lines - When the grass shall cover me,
Head to foot where I am lying;28 lines - WHAT songs found voice upon those lips,
What magic dwelt within the pen,38 lines - So glide the days, dear! Dawn will not delay,
Noontide will come, nor linger in its flight;13 lines
