Henry Howard Brownell

Henry Howard Brownell (February 6, 1820 – 1872) was an American poet and historian.

• Up the River of Death
  Sailed the Great Admiral!
  • The River Fight (published 1864).

• You might have deemed our long gun-deck
  Two hundred feet of hell.
  • The River Fight (published 1864). Compare: "War is hell", attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman; "This is the soldier brave enough to tell, The glory-dazzled world that 'war is hell'", Henry van Dyke, On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman.

• Since what unnumbered year
  Hast thou kept watch and ward
  And o’er the buried Land of Fear
  So grimly held thy guard?
  • The Sphynx (published 1864).

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