Clinton Scollard
(1860–1932)

American poet and writer of fiction; has been characterized as a minor poet but a fine technician

Clinton Scollard

Works

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  • Pictures in Song (1884)
  • With Reed and Lyre (1886)
  • Old and New World Lyrics (1888)
  • Vignettes: Real and Ideal; Stories by American Authors (1890), also by Frederic Edward McKay, Algernon de Vivier Tassin, William D. Moffat, John J. A'Becket, William Murray Graydon, Matthew White, Jane G. Austin, Oscar Fay Adams, Jerome C. Bull, Emma V. Sheridan, Edward Irenaeus Prime- Stevenson, Mabel Louise Fuller, Frederick C. de Sumichrast, and Clyde Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Songs of Sunrise Lands (1892)
  • Under Summer Skies (1892)
  • Giovio and Guilia, a metrical romance (1892)
  • On Sunny Shores (1893)
  • The Hills of Song (1895)
  • The Broken Heart (1895), also by John Ford
  • Skenandoa (1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • A Boy's Book of Rhyme (1896)
  • A Christmas Garland With a Few Flowers for the New Year (1897)
  • A Man-At-Arms; a Romance of the Days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Great Viper (1898)
  • The Home of William Cullen Bryant ... (1899), also by Theodore Dreiser and William Cullen Bryant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Ballads of American bravery (1900)
  • The Lutes of Morn (1901)
  • The son of a Tory; a narrative of the experiences of Wilton Aubrey in the Mohawk Valley and elsewhere during the summer of 1777 (1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Lyrics of the Dawn (1902)
  • The cloistering of Ursula : being certain chapters from the Memoirs of Andrea, Marquis of Uccelli, and Count of Castelpulchio (1902)
  • Ballads of valor and victory; being stories in song from the annals of America(1903)
  • Count Falcon of the Eyrie : a narrative wherein are set forth the adventures of Guido Orrabelli dei Falchi during a certain autumn of his career (1903), also by Anna Milo Upjohn and James Pott & Co
  • The Lyric Bough (1904)
  • Footfarings (1904)
  • Odes and Elegies (1905)
  • A Southern Flight (1906) (with Frank Dempster Sherman)
  • Easter-Song; Lyrics and Ballads of the Joy of Spring-Time (1906)
  • Lyrics & Legends of Christmas-Tide (1906)
  • Blank Verse Pastels (1907)
  • Children of romance; in memory of James Fenimore Cooper, read at the centennial of the village of Cooperstown, August 8, 1907 (1907)
  • Voices and visions (1908)
  • A Knight of the Highway (1908)
  • Miniatures. (1909)
  • Pro patria, verses chiefly patriotic (1909)
  • Song for the ter-centenary of Lake Champlain (1909)
  • Sapphics (1910), also by Thomas Samuel Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
  • The Singing Heart (1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Chords of the Zither (1910)
  • From the Heart of the Hills (1910)
  • The Vicar of the Marches (1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • from the Lips of the Sea (1911)
  • An Easter Garland (1911), also by Thomas S. Jones
  • Songs of a Syrian lover (1912)
  • Rose of an hundred years, Hamilton College, 1812-1912 (1912)
  • Lyrics from a Library (1913)
  • Poems (1914)
  • Sprays of Shamrock (1914)
  • Italy in Arms, and Other Poems (1915)
  • Vale of Shadows and Other Verses of the Great War (1915)
  • Ballads, Patriotic and Romantic (1916)
  • Serenade, a love-song : with piano accompaniment (G. Schirmer, 1916), also by Alice Barnett (page images at HathiTrust)
  • (ed.)The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman (1917)
  • Elegy in autumn, in memory of Frank Dempster Sherman (1917)
  • Lyrics From a Library (1917)
  • Let the Flag Wave, With Other Verses Written in Wartime (1917)
  • War Voices and Memories; Being Verses Written During the Years Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen and Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen (1920)
  • The Epic of Golf (1923)
  • Songs out of Egypt (1930)
  • The Bird-Lovers' Anthology (1930), Compiled by Clinton Scollard and Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
  • Patrician Rhymes; a Résumé of American Society Verse from Philip Freneau to the Present Day (1932), edited by Clinton Scollard and Jessie B. Rittenhouse
  • Songs from a Southern Shore (1932)
  • The Singing Heart; Selected Lyrics and Other Poems of Clinton Scollard (1934) edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Poetry

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Anthologized

"In Time of Danger" pp. 31-32; "Blow, O Ye Bugles" p. 70; "Of Kings" p. 76; "Shoulder to Shoulder" pp. 82-83.
"Italy in Arms", p. 103; "A Summer Morning", p. 179.
"The Spirit", p. 314.

Prose

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  • A Man-at-Arms
  • The Cloistering of Ursula

 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1932, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 91 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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