In addition to his six published books; "Bright Harbor" (1932),[1] "Thirteen Sonnets For Georgia" (1933), "Call Back The Spring" (1935), "Wild Heron" (1940), "Never The Nightingale" (1951), and "The Poems of Daniel Whitehead Hicky" (1975), his work was regularly published in the national magazines, newspapers, and periodicals including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's Magazine, The Atlanta Constitution, The North American Review, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York Herald-Tribune, and others.
And he gave lectures and readings of his poems throughout the South and Eastern US at various colleges, clubs, and poetry societies.
Later in life, he worked as an editor at the Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C.[1] Encouraged by friends and fans he published a final farewell book, "The Poems of Daniel Whitehead Hicky" (1975), the year before he died.
His ancestors include Col. Philip Hickey (first generation Irish-American), owner of Hope Estate Plantation in Baton Rouge, La.
He is buried in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta near his sister, Elizabeth and husband Karl.