Printed in Charlottesville in 1855 and dedicated to the poet’s father, this volume opens with a romantic retelling of Pocahontas and goes on through ballads, songs and lyrics: “Elfindale,” a skylark, a Princess of Peru, dream-faces and elegies for departed friends, in the sentimental manner of antebellum Southern verse.
A rare glimpse of the poetry being written in Virginia before the Civil War, for collectors of regional verse. Download the free EPUB.