About
American Romantic poet whose best-known poems include "The Bedouin's Rebuke" and "What Do We Plant When We Plant a Tree?" His poetry collections include Dream of Love and The City of Success.
Before Fame
He published his first literary work, May Dreams, in 1862.
Trivia
He worked as assistant editor of the Rondout Courier.
Family Life
He was born in New York and was the son of a relatively prosperous farm products merchant. He married Mary Louise DuBois in 1865.
Associated With
He was influenced by the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
