Clinton Scollard
(1860–1932)

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

Clinton Scollard

Works edit

  • Pictures in Song (1884)
  • With Reed and Lyre (1886)
  • Old and New World Lyrics (1888)
  • Songs of Sunrise Lands (1982)
  • Under Summer Skies (1892)
  • On Sunny Shores (1893)
  • The Hills of Song (1895)
  • The Lutes of Morn (1901)
  • Lyrics of the Dawn (1902)
  • The Lyric Bough (1904)
  • A Southern Flight (1906) (with Frank Dempster Sherman)
  • Blank Verse Pastels (1907)
  • Chords of the Zither (1910)
  • 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)
  • The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman, Ed. Clinton Scollard (1917)
  • Lyrics From a Library (1917)
  • The Bird-Lovers' Anthology, Compiled by Clinton Scollard and Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1930)
  • Patrician Rhymes; a Résumé of American Society Verse from Philip Freneau to the Present Day, Ed. by Clinton Scollard and Jessie B. Rittenhouse (1932)
  • Songs from a Southern Shore (1932)
  • The Singing Heart; Selected Lyrics and Other Poems of Clinton Scollard Ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (1934)


  • Ballads of American bravery (1900)
  • Ballads of valor and victory; being stories in song from the annals of America(1903)
  • A boy's book of rhyme (1896)
  • The broken heart (1895), also by John Ford
  • Children of romance; in memory of James Fenimore Cooper, read at the centennial of the village of Cooperstown, August 8, 1907 (1907)
  • A Christmas garland with a few flowers for the New Year (1897)
  • The cloistering of Ursula : being certain chapters from the Memoirs of Andrea, Marquis of Uccelli, and Count of Castelpulchio (1902)
  • 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
  • An Easter garland (1911), also by Thomas S. Jones
  • Easter-song; lyrics and ballads of the joy of spring-time (1906)
  • Elegy in autumn, in memory of Frank Dempster Sherman (1917)
  • The epic of golf (1923)
  • Footfarings (1904)
  • From the heart of the hills (1910)
  • From the lips of the sea (1911)
  • Giovio and Guilia, a metrical romance (1892)


  • The home of William Cullen Bryant ... (1899), also by Theodore Dreiser and William Cullen Bryant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • A knight of the highway (1908)
  • Let the flag wave, with other verses written in wartime (1917)
  • Lyrics & legends of Christmas-tide (1906)
  • Lyrics from a library (1913)
  • A man-at-arms; a romance of the days of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the great viper (1898)
  • Miniatures. (1909)
  • Odes and elegies (1905)
  • Old and New world lyrics (1888)


  • Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Pro patria, verses chiefly patriotic (1909)
  • Rose of an hundred years, Hamilton College, 1812-1912. (1912)
  • Sapphics (G.W. Browning, 1910), also by Thomas Samuel Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Serenade, a love-song : with piano accompaniment (G. Schirmer, 1916), also by Alice Barnett (page images at HathiTrust)
  • The singing heart. (Pennypacker Press, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Skenandoa (University press], 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • The son of a Tory; a narrative of the experiences of Wilton Aubrey in the Mohawk Valley and elsewhere during the summer of 1777 (Richard G. Badger & Company (Incorporated), 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Song for the ter-centenary of Lake Champlain (1909)
  • Songs of a Syrian lover (1912)
  • Songs out of Egypt (1930)
  • A southern flight (G. W. Browning, 1905), also by Frank Dempster Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
  • The vicar of the marches (Sherman, French & Company, 1911), also by French & Company Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
  • Vignettes: real and ideal. (De Wolfe, Fiske & co., 1890), also by Frederic Edward McKay, Algernon de Vivier Tassin, William D. Moffat, John J. À Beckett, William Murray Graydon, Matthew White, Jane G. Austin, Oscar Fay Adams, Jerome Case Bull, Emma V. Sheridan, Edward Irenæus Prime- Steveson, Mabel Louise Fuller, Frederick C. de Sumichrast, and Clyde Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
  • 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)
  • Voices and visions (1908)
  • War voices and memories; being verses written during the years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen (1920)



Prose edit

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

Poetry edit

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.


 

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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