"Some days my thoughts are just cocoons—all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the gray woods of my mind;And other days they drift and shine—such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings."
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesUniversity of Chicago alumniPeople from Little RockWomen born in the 1870s
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"Days", in B. J. Thompson, ed. Silver Pennies (1925), p. 114
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Karle Wilson Baker
(née Wilson; October 13, 1878 – November 8, 1960) was an American poet and author, born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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