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Wendell Phillips Stafford

(1861-1953)
Vermont

Wendell P. Stafford served as justice on the Vermont Supreme Court. In 1898, he was president of the Vermont Bar Association. Stafford's verse appeared with some frequency in The Green Bag.

Poetry

Wendell Phillips Stafford, Dorian Days, Poems (New York: Macmillan Company, 1909) [online text]

__________________, The Land We Love, Poems Chiefly Patriotic (St. Johnsbury, Vermont: Arthur F. Stone, 1916) [online text]

__________________, War Poems ([n.d], "These poems, of timely interest as America is entertaining the great war for freedom and democracy, are published and sold, for the benefit of the red cross, by Arthur F. Stone of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Price Twenty-Five Cents.")

__________________, Sweetheart for Ever: Florence Saint Clair, a Sonnet Sequence (Madison, New Jersey: Golden Hind Press, 1950)

The Green Bag
(A Legal Periodical)

Wendell P. Stafford, "A More Particular Description," 3 The Green Bag 264 (1891)

_______________, "A Stroller's Confession," 4 The Green Bag 554 (1892)

_______________, "A Branch of Pine," 5 The Green Bag 169 (1893)

_______________, "A Contrast," 5 The Green Bag 523 (1893)

_______________, "A Possible Misnomer," 6 The Green Bag 167 (1894)

_______________, "On a Portrait of Henry W. Paine," 6 The Green Bag 214 (1894)

_______________, "Petition for Guardian," 6 The Green Bag 311 (1894)

_______________, "Beside the Mark," 6 The Green Bag 455 (1894)

_______________, "Le garcon qui rit," 6 The Green Bag 559 (1894)

_______________, "Couplet and Quatrains," 7 The Green Bag 167 (1895)

_______________, "Contrasts in Court," 8 The Green Bag 458 (1896)

_______________, "The Point of View," 9 The Green Bag 16 (1897)

_______________, "My Inheritance," 10 The Green Bag 140 (1898)

_______________, "Sonnet on the Sistine Madonna," 22 The Green Bag 306 (1910)

_______________, "Status and Contract" 22 The Green Bag 695 (1910)

Law Poetry Anthologies

Wendell P. Stafford, "Petition for Guardian" and "Contrasts in Court," in Ina Russelle Warren (ed.), The Lawyer's Alcove: Poems by the Lawyer, for the Lawyer and about the Lawyer 108-109, 141 (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1900)(Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1990)

Speeches

Wendell Phillips Stafford, Speeches (St. Johnsbury, Vermont: Arthur F. Stone 1913)