A Summer Story Sheridan's Ride: And Other Poems (Classic Reprint)
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And on your spotless teeth of snow, The heart its reddest bloom has set, The sweetest and dewiest that ever yet On womanly lip was seen to glow: Thus while you sit in your beauty and bloom, Helped on by the kindly light of your glance, With silver shuttle and golden loom, I weave for you this light romance.
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The Female Poets of America: With Portraits, Biographical Notices (Classic Reprint)
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The present volume is offered to the public as a specimen of American Literature and American Art. The double office of the Editor, as a poet and a painter, and his acknowledged eminence in both of these depart ments, have given him peculiar facilities for the preparation of such a work. Himself an accomplished and successful writer, thoroughly versed in the literature of the country, and personally acquainted with most of its authors, he has exercised his poetical taste in selecting, from the field thus opened to him, the most beautiful specimens which our literature affords. The biographical notices have been prepared, in every instance, from facts either within his personal knowledge, or communicated to him directly by the authors or their friends. The portraits are all from paintings made by him expressly for this work, and are executed in the finest style of line engraving by Mr. Pease. The illuminated Proem, both in the design and execution, is one of the most brilliant specimens of the art ever produced in the United States. The paper, and even the type, on which the book is printed, were made for this special purpose, and have been greatly admired for their beauty and finish. The utmost pains, indeed, have been taken both by the Editor and the Publishers, to make the work as beautiful in appearance, as it is authentic and original in character.
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To Copley's matchless coat and gown, Or Stuart's later touch divine. Still from their frames of gold or oak.
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Buchanan Read, Vol. 3: Complete in Three Volumes (Classic Reprint)
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And more behooves not guest to say The very pictures on the wall With kindness seemed to whisper, Stay 1 Old portraits of a dwindled line, From Lely's ruff and doublet down To Copley's matchless coat and gown, Or Stuart's later touch divine. Still from their frames of gold or oak, A knight or lady shepherdess, In valor or in loveliness, Leaned through the twilight air and spoke: They whispered that the road was dark, And lone the highway by the river, That past recall the latest bark Had swept the landing of the park, There on the stream I still might mark Its fading path Of ripples quiver, And hear the shore-wave running after, Like childhood with a voice of laughter.
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Thomas Buchanan Read was an American poet and portrait painter.
Background
Thomas Buchanan Read was born on March 12, 1822 on a farm at Corner Ketch, near Guthriesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was of Scotch-Irish and English descent; his great-grandfather, Thomas Read (1746 - 1823), son of John and Eleanor Read, Irish immigrants, was a Presbyterian minister and president for a time of the Classical Academy of Newark, Delaware.
Career
As a schoolboy Read evinced an aptitude for drawing and versifying, but on his father's death, in 1832 or shortly thereafter, the family dispersed and the boy was apprenticed to a tailor.
Harshly treated, he ran away, became a grocer's helper and learned cigar making in Philadelphia; journeyed on foot to Pittsburgh in 1837 and thence by flatboat to Cincinnati, where he found shelter in the household of a married sister; earned a livelihood by rolling cigars, painting canal boats, and doing odd jobs; was hired by Shobal Vail Clevenger to chisel figures and inscriptions on tombstones and received some lessons from him in sculpture; opened a sign-painter's shop, practising drawing in his spare hours and writing verse for the Times and the Chronicle; wandered through Ohio as an itinerant portrait painter; played female parts in a theatrical troupe at Dayton; and finally, with the generous patronage of Nicholas Longworth, fitted up a studio in Cincinnati and was commissioned to make a portrait of Gen. William Henry Harrison, then a candidate for the presidency. "A sad daub, " Read called it afterwards, but at the time it afforded useful publicity.
In 1841 he painted his way eastward to New York and then to Boston, where he opened a studio in the basement of the Park Street Church, made sincere, helpful friends of Longfellow and Washington Allston, and was soon thriving at his profession. Leonard Woods and Moses Stuart were among his first sitters.
In 1845 he published a novelette, Paul Redding: A Tale of the Brandywine, a juvenile ragout of Irvingesque idyll, dialect humor, and ten-cent melodrama. Except for a few articles in Graham's Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly he published no other prose. During this period he contributed several poems to the Boston Courier. His removal to Philadelphia in 1846 marked a turning point in his career. For the rest of his life that city was, in a sense, his home, although he resided for short periods in Cincinnati, New York, and Boston, and for rather longer periods in Europe, where he became well known in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Düsseldorf, Florence, and Rome.
In Philadelphia, however, he found his closest friends and most constant patrons, and its newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses printed most of his verse.
He compiled an anthology, The Female Poets of America (1849), with short biographical notices cribbed from Rufus W. Griswold, who trounced him for the theft and then forgave him.
In 1853 Read established himself in Florence, expecting to spend the rest of his life there, but in 1855 his wife and a daughter died of cholera, and he was distraught with grief. He returned to the United States and in the summer of 1856.
During the Civil War he was a major on the staff of Gen. Lew Wallace, but his chief service was on the lecture platform. He and James Edward Murdoch frequently appeared together, Murdoch reading a number of Read's patriotic poems. After the war Read made his home in Rome. In 1868 his health began to fail. With a premonition of his approaching death he sailed for New York in April 1872, contracted pneumonia aboard ship, and died at the Astor House, New York, a few days after his arrival. He was buried in Central Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.
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Personality
Read was about five feet tall, slenderly built, and sometimes weighed less than one hundred pounds. He had delicate features, a good voice, engaging manners, was devoutly religious and incapable of deceit. Though modest in his demeanor, he was confident of his powers. It was impossible not to like him; wherever he went he made lasting friends.
Interests
His recreation was fishing.
Connections
In 1843 he married Mary J. Pratt of Gambier, Ohio. In 1856 he married Harriet Denison Butler of Northampton, Massachussets, who outlived him. His three children by his first marriage had died before him.