"Nature lies disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,— Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart; Yet that slackened grasp doth hold Store of pure and genuine gold; Quick thou comest, strong and free, Type of all the wealth to be,— Goldenrod!"
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPoets from Massachusetts
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Goldenrod; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 326.
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Elaine Goodale Eastman
1863 – 1953
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) was an American poet along with her sister of Dora Read Goodale. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
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