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William Collins

I lived from 1838-1938. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

I influenced poet James Henry Leigh Hunt.

The birth date is a circa date.

He emigrated to the United States from Scotland at the age of 15, took part in the Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866, and subsequently published several books of poems in the United States as well as being the author of three full-length novels.

My poetry

  • Molly Maguire at Monmouth
    On the bloody field of Monmouth
    Flashed the guns of Greene and Wayne.
    80 lines
  • from "A Sigh For Old Times"
    There's not a spot around old Strabane but memory treasures still
    From Milltown wide to Crogan's side but has my right good will
    8 lines
  • Ode: How Sleep the Brave
    How sleep the brave who sink to rest
    By all their country’s wishes blest!
    12 lines

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