"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."
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People from New York (state)Academics from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesColumbia University alumniColumbia University faculty
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"The Book-Collector", in The Century, vol. 31, no. 1 (November 1885) p. 160. Also in Madrigals and Catches (New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887) p. 52
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Frank Dempster Sherman
Frank Dempster Sherman (May 6, 1860 – September 19, 1916), sometimes writing as Felix Carmen, was an American poet and academic.
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