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Ralph, And Other Poems
Henry Abbey
Horatio Fowks, 1866
Poetry; General; Poetry / General
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he liquid dark; And a fire-fly, perched upon it, Shone out its fitful spark. I fancied it a light-house Mooned on a sky-like sea, To warn the fearless sailors Of lurking treachery-- Of unseen reefs and shallows That starved for wrecks to be. O Blanche, O love that spurns me, 'Tis but a cheat thou art. I would some friendly light-house Had warned me to depart From the secret reefs and shallows That hide about your heart. XV. DARKNESS. My hopes and my ambition all were down, Like grass the mower turneth from its place; The night's thick darkness was an angry frown, And earth a tear upon the cheek of space. The mighty fiend of storm in wild unrest, By lightning stabbed, dragged slowly up the plain; Great clots of light, like blood, dripped down his breast, And from his open jaws fell foam in rain. XVI. IN THE CHURCH-YARD. Where the s
Poems of Henry Abbey. Fourth Edition, Enlarged. New York-1904
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Henry Abbey was an American poet. He was known as the author of "What do we plant when we plant a tree?" and "The Bedouin's Rebuke. "
Background
Henry Abbey was born on July 11, 1842 in Rondout (now a part of Kingston), New York, United States. He was the son of Stephen Abbey and Caroline Vail. Among his ancestors were the Scotch reformer, John Knox, and, according to tradition, the Indian chieftain, Massasoit.
Education
Abbey attended Hedding Institute, and the Hudson River Institute. Financial reverses which came to his father about 1859 destroyed his hopes of a college education, but for a time he studied with the noted lawyer, John Norton Pomeroy, then practicing in Rochester, New York.
Career
After a period of editorial work on the Rondout Courier and the journalistic experiment in New York and Orange, Abbey became teller in the Bank of Rondout, but soon left that institution to enter the feed, flour, and lime business conducted by his father and his brother.
Thereafter, until his later years, he was closely identified with the commercial and banking activities of the town, making poetry his pastime and finding congenial companionship and literary inspiration in the New York Shakespeare Society and Authors Club.
Abbey's first volume of poems May Dreams was published in 1862, when he was but twenty years old, and was dedicated by permission to William Cullen Bryant. This was followed by Ralph and Other Poems (1866); Stories in Verse, dedicated "to Richard Grant White with gratitude for his friendship, and with admiration for his elegant scholarship" (1869); Ballads of Good Deeds, dedicated to George William Curtis (1872); English edition of same with a few additions (1876); Poems (1879); The City of Success and Other Poems (1884); Bright Things from Everywhere, Poems, Paragraphs, Wit and Wisdom selected by Henry Abbey (1888); Phaethon (1901); The Poems of Henry Abbey (1885), (1895), (1904); Dream of Love (1910).
Abbey's poetry was widely known in its day, being favorably received in England as well as in America. The simplicity, rhythm, and wholesomeness of his earlier poems won them a place in home papers and school readers, but the later and more elaborate did not achieve a like popularity. In form and sentiment both are typical of the last half of the nineteenth century. Often obtrusively didactic, they are permeated with the spirit of democracy, pride of country, and love of honor, justice, and kindness. They never rise to any great height of beauty, imagination, passion, or thought; neither do they sink very low. Some of them doubtless will live on in anthologies; the most of them will probably be forgotten.
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Religion
Abbey was a Protestant.
Membership
Abbey was a member of Fair Street Reformed Church, Kingston Board of Health, Authors Club and life member of New York Shakespeare Society.
Personality
Abbey is described as a quiet, square-headed, kindly-looking gentleman who talked nearly as well as he wrote, generously friendly at heart, but of a shy modesty and excessive fear of intrusion which often obscured his real sweetness and worth.
Connections
In 1865 Abbey married Mary Louise Dubois of Kingston. She died on November 3, 1889.