Henry Abbey

For the theater producer and manager, see Henry Eugene Abbey.

Henry Abbey (1842-1911) was an American poet who is best known for the poem What do we plant when we plant a tree?

Collected Works

• May Dreams (1862)
• Ralph and other Poems (1866)
• Stories in Verse (1869)
• Ballads of Good Deeds (1872)
• Poems (1879)
• The City of Success and other Poems (1883)
• Dream of Love (1910)

References

"Abbey, Henry". The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia Of American Literature, 2nd Edition. Retrieved 2006-06-06.
"Henry Abbey". Virtual American Biographies. Retrieved 2006-06-06.

External links

• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889