Thomas Buchanan Read (March 12, 1822 – May 11, 1872), was an American poet and portrait painter.
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—Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)
“Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house
The gentleman lay graveward with his furies;
Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from Adam,
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