I lived from 1813-1880. I was from the USA, and am in the Americas category.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 22, 1813; died there, May, 1880. His father was a sea captain and the son went with him upon many voyages. He was educated at Harvard and taught Greek there for a short time after his graduation. He belonged to the Transcendentalist group of writers and was a close friend of Emerson and Channing, and of James Freeman Clarke, who edited the complete posthumous edition of his works.
Popular poetry
- The morning comes, and thickening clouds prevail,
Hanging like curtains all the horizon round,14 lines - I see them crowd on crowd they walk the earth
Dry, leafless trees no Autumn wind laid bare,14 lines, 1 comment - I looked to find a man who walked with God,
Like the translated patriarch of old;--14 lines, 2 comments - I walk the streets and though not meanly drest,
Yet none so poor as can with me compare;14 lines, 1 comment - The seed has started,—who can stay it? see,
The leaves are sprouting high above the ground;14 lines - I asked of Time to tell me where was Love;
He pointed to her foot-steps on the snow,14 lines, 1 comment - There is no faith; the mountain stands within
Still unrebuked, its summit reaches heaven;14 lines - He was not armed like those of eastern clime,
Whose heavy axes felled their heathen foe;14 lines - I saw a war, yet none the trumpet blew,
Nor in their hands the steel-wrought weapons bare;14 lines - Father! there is no change to live with Thee,
Save that in Christ I grow from day to day,14 lines
