Henry Howard Brownell

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

Quotes

 * 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).