He wrote about a lady whose "thrushes sing in Rathburn bowers" who "cannot guess" that the speaker kneels "to share her hound's caress" in his poem "The Henchman."
He wrote about a lady whose "thrushes sing in Rathburn bowers" who "cannot guess" that the speaker kneels "to share her hound's caress" in his poem "The Henchman." He wrote about a man who didn't believe that the "Dark Day" of May 19, 1780 was the Day of Judgment in "Abraham Davenport," while he wrote about the death of a woman named Mary and the need of informing some insects of her demise in his "Telling the Bees." His early works include the narrative poem Moll Pitcher and the prose Legends of New England, though he gained recognition as a major poet with the appearance of 1866's Snow-Bound. FTP, name this American author of "Ichabod" and "Barbara Frietchie."
He wrote about a lady whose "thrushes sing in Rathburn bowers" who "cannot guess" that the speaker kneels "to share her hound's caress" in his poem "The Henchman."
John Greenleaf Whittier