with an air of melancholy." Selected works The Rest of the Nations: A Poem (1826) Our Chronicle of '26: A Satirical Poem (1827) Sad Tales and Glad Tales, as by Reginald Reverie (1828) The Martyr's Triumph: Buried Valley; and Other poems (1833) A Book of the United States: Exhibiting Its Geography, Divisions, Constitution, and Government, credited as editor (1839) References External links 1799 births 1841 deaths American poets Harvard University alumni 19th-century American lawyers