Rosemary and Pansies

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Effie Waller Smith In Year : 1909

Book Language: English

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At the Grave of One Forgotten
The Shepherds' Vision
Heredity
The Wood Fire
A New Year's Hope
To a Silver Dollar
Preparation
Ghosts
The Rainbow
Heroes
The Recompense
The Test
To a Dead Baby
Thanksgiving
Under Roofs
Forever
If Christ Should Come
Gifts
Benefaction
Historic Ground
A Mountain Graveyard
After the Last Lesson
The Road to Church
The Patchwork Quilt
My Brother
In Fuller Measure
October
Benignant Death
The Unreturning
When a Hundred Years Have Passed
Fallen Leaves
December Snow
Trust
Toward Sunrise
Good Night

Effie Waller Smith was recognized as a promising young black poet. Her poems reflect her love of nature, her faith, and her experience as a black woman in Appalachia. Although she only published three volumes of poetry during her lifetime, the poems are as relevant today as when first published. Perhaps she is best described in this poem by Peter Clay: "To Effie Waller. Far upon among the mountains, Where rivers leave their fountains, And happy birds send forth their merry thrills, There dwells a little poet, Though few there be who know it, Whose voice is an echo from the hills." (AnnaLisa Bodtker)