THE

POETS OF AMERICA:

ILLUSTRATED

BY ONE OF HER PAINTERS.

"The world is full of Poetry.-Its words

Are few, but deep and solemn; and they break
Fresh from the fount of feeling."-Percival.

EDITED BY JOHN KEESE.

[Volume Second of the Series.]

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COLMAN,
SOLD BY COLLINS, KEESE & CO., NEW YORK.
THOMAS COWPERTHWAIT & CO., PHILADEPHIA.
WILLIAM D. TICKNOR, BOSTON.

1842.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841,

BY JOHN KEESE,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Stereotyped by
RICHARD C. VALENTINE,

45 Gold-street, New York.

ALEX. S. GOULD, Printer, 144 Nassau-st., N. Y.

TO THE

PAINTERS OF OUR COUNTRY,

THIS VOLUME,

ILLUSTRATED BY THE GENIUS OF ONE OF THEIR NUMBER,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.