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Born in June 7, 1836 / Died in December 30, 1900 / United States / English

Bibliography

Blood's The History of Temple, N. H. (1860) is still considered an important resource for the history of that region.

His poetry was highly regarded and anthologized in his own day, when he was considered in the first rank of American poets, but has been dismissed as overly-sentimental by later critics. Among the periodicals and newspapers in which his verse appeared were Boston Advertiser, The Century Illustrated Magazine, Christian Union, Dollar Monthly Magazine, Flag of Our Union, Harper's Weekly, The Independent, The Knickerbocker Monthly, The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, New England Magazine, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Tribune, Scribner's Magazine, The Home Journal, and The Youth's Companion.

Blood's dramatic works appear never to have made much of an impression, either in his own lifetime or since. At least one of them (How Much I Loved Thee! (1884)) was published under the pseudonym of Raymond Eshobel, which is an anagram of the author's name.

Dates are of first publication if known; an "a." before a date indicates the poem appeared in an anthology or collection of that date (original publication was likely earlier); an asterisk indicates the piece was collected in Blood's Selected Poems.

  • Selected Poems of Henry Ames Blood (collection, 1901) (Google Books e-text) (Internet Archive e-text)
  • "At the Door" (ca. 1860)
  • "The Chimney-nook"* (The Home Journal, May 5, 1860)
  • "Pro Mortuis"* (New York Post, Jul. 15, 1862)
  • "Sighs in the South"* (New York Weekly Tribune, Oct. 13, 1862)
  • "May Flowers"* (New York Weekly Tribune, Apr. 26, 1863)
  • "The Sale of the Picture" (Dollar Monthly Magazine, Jul. 1863)
  • "The Last War of the Dryads"* (Knickerbocker Magazine, Jul. 1863)
  • "Fantasie"* (Knickerbocker Magazine, [Jan. 1864)
  • "The Masque in Fantasie"* (Knickerbocker Magazine, Feb. 1864)
  • "The Astrologers" (Flag of Our Union, Jan. 7, 1865)
  • "The Death of the Old Year"* (The Independent, Dec. 28, 1871)
  • "The Grand Orchestra"* (The Independent, Jan. 11, 1872)
  • "The Departure of the Gods from Greece" (The Independent, Mar. 28, 1872)
  • "The Song of the Savoyards"* (Scribner's Monthly, Jun. 1875)
  • "Jeannette"* (Harper's Weekly, May 19, 1879)
  • "The Invisible Piper"* (a.1882)
  • "Yearnings"* (a.1882)
  • "The Two Enchantments"* (The Century Magazine, Jan. 1883)
  • "The Rock in the Sea"* (The Century Magazine, Sep. 1883)
  • "Webster"* (New York Observer, Jun. 17, 1886)
  • "At the Grave: In Memory of A.M."* (The Century Magazine, Feb. 1887)
  • "Comrades"* (The Century Magazine, Dec. 1887)
  • "Ad Astra"* (The Century Magazine, Dec. 1888)
  • "Old Friends"* (Boston Advertiser, Nov. 15, 1889)
  • "The Fighting Parson"* (The Century Magazine, May 1890)
  • "Margie"* (Youth's Companion, May 21, 1891)
  • "The Drummer"* (The Century Magazine, Jul. 1891)
  • "Thoreau: In Memoriam"* (AKA "From a Poem on Thoreau," Library of the World's Best Literature, a.1896)
  • "Shakespeare"* (New York Tribune, date unknown (a.1891))
  • "The Byles Girls" (The New England Magazine, Aug. 1897)
  • "Great Expectations of the House of Dock" (a.1897)
  • "The Last Visitor"* (a.1895)
  • "The Fairy Boat"* (a.1901)
  • "A Midnight Chorus"* (a.1901)
  • "The Serene Message"* (The Century Magazine, date unknown (a.1901))
  • "Saint Goethe's Night"* (a.1901)