“The bird, let loose in eastern skies, when hastening fondly home, ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies where idle warblers roam.”

About James Gates Percival

Poet • American

James Gates Percival was a versatile 19th-century American figure, known primarily as a poet but also as a geologist, surgeon, and linguist. Born in Connecticut, he displayed prodigious intellectual talents from a young...