Sargent, Epes
journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 27, 1813, in Gloucester, Mass. He was a once prominent Boston journalist and poet, who perhaps will be longest remembered by the familiar poem, Life on the Ocean Wave.
His verse includes, Songs of the Sea; Poems; and The Woman who Dared. In fiction he published, Wealth and Worth; What's to be Done?; Fleetwood; and Pe- He culiar, a tale of the Great Rebellion. wrote the dramas, Bride of Genoa; Velasco; Change Makes Change; and The Priestess. His miscellaneous writings comprise, Life of Henry Clay; American Adventures by Land and Sea; Arctic Adventures by Sea and Land; Original Dialogues; Planchette, the Despair of Science; and Memoir of Franklin. He edited a popular series of school and critical editions of many English poets, and Harper's Cyclopedia of Poetry. He died Dec. 31, 1880, in Boston, Mass.