POEMS BY SIDNEY HENRY MORSE:

MORSE, SIDNEY HENRY. Born in Rochester, New York, October 3, 1833. While still in his boyhood, Mr. Morse was obliged to leave school to learn the stone-cutter's trade, but love of study spurred him to supplement his scant schooling by wide reading, and when, at twenty years of age, he made the acquaintance of the celebrated Unitarian clergyman, Moncure D. Conway, he was inspired to prepare himself also for the Unitarian ministry. He became the pastor of a Unitarian church at Haverhill, Massachusetts, but left this some time later to edit and publish "The Radical," a liberal Unitarian organ. Mr. Morse had also artistic ability and did some notable work in sculpture, a bust of Emerson in the Second Church of Boston and of Dr. Channing in Arlington Street Church, are among his best-known pieces.

This biographical note is reprinted from The Little Book of American Poets: 1787-1900. Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915.

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