"Thy subtle charm is strangely given, My fancy will not let thee be, , Then poise not thus 'twixt earth and heaven, O white anemone!"
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPoets from Massachusetts
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Anemone; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 26.
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Elaine Goodale Eastman
1863 β 1953
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863β1953) 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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