“If I should die to-night, and you should come to my cold corpse and say, weeping and longing, I would not care.”
About Ben King
17 March 1857–8 April 1894
Benjamin Franklin King Jr., known almost everywhere in print as Ben King, was born on 17 March 1857 in St. Joseph, Michigan, and died on 8 April 1894 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. His life lasted only thirty-seven years, and his reputation has never approached that of the best-known American poets of his generation. Yet…