Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor. His talent was many-sided. He was well known for his form in poetry. His successive volumes of verse, chiefly The Ballad of Babie Bell (1856), Pampinea, and Other Poems (1861), Cloth of Gold (1874), Flower and Thorn (1876), Friar Jeromes Beautiful Book (1881), Mercedes and Later Lyrics (1883), Wyndham Towers (1889), and the collected editions of 1865, 1882, 1897 and 1900, showed him to be a poet of lyrical skill and light touch. Critics believed him to show the influence of Robert Herrick.
This Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 consists of:
1.The Ballad of Babie Bell (1860)
2.The bells (1855)
3.The Course of True Love never Did Run Smooth (1858)
4.Farewell! (1846)
5.Flower and thorn (1877)
6.Little Charlie (1856)
7.Mercedes, and later lyrics (1884)
8.Pampinea and other poems (1861)
9.Poems (1863)
10.The Poems (1865)
11.The poems (1907)