Henry Sandford Spofford

Henry Sandford Spofford (January 29, 1845 - October 12, 1868) was an American poet.

Life
Little is recorded of Sanford's life. He was born in New York City, and died there (in Flatbush, Brooklyn). He was baptised in Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church, Kings County, Long Island, New York, on April 27, 1860

After his death, a number of poems were found in his writing desk, "written in lead pencil on old envelopes and scraps of paper, evidently dashed off at the moment, without revision.... They were all written while he was a student, and before the age of twenty years." His mother collected and printed a selection of them in book form, "a mother's tribute to the memory of a beloved and gifted child."

Publications

 * Poems. New York: 1869.