Lydia Sigourney

Overview

Lydia Sigourney (née Huntley) born Norwich, CT September 1, 1791 (d. 1865). Popular American "poet laureate of peace"; internationalist; supported abolition of slavery.

Quotations

'Peace' was the song the angels sang. . . 
'War', is the word that man hath spoke,
convuls'd by passions dark and dread
("Peace" Poems, p. 31, 1827; photo Wikipedia)