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Read, Thomas Buchanan

artist, poet, was born March 12, 1822, in Chester county, Pa. He was a poet and artist of Philadelphia, whose later years were spent in Florence and Rome. As a poet he is best known by the famous Sheridan's Ride; Drifting; and The Closing Scene; and it is by these poems that he will continue to be remembered. He is the author of Poems; Lays and Ballads; The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard, a prose romance; The New Pastoral; The House by the Sea; The Wagoner of the Alleghanies, in which occurs the fine lyric beginning, The maid who binds her warrior's sash; Sylvia; A Voyage to Iceland; A Summer Story; and Sheridan's Ride, and Other Poems. His complete poems were issued in 1882. He died May 11, 1872, in New York city.