"Deborah danced, when she was two, As buttercups and daffodils do; Spirited, frail, naïvely bold, Her hair a ruffled crest of gold."
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Essayists from the United StatesChildren's authorsWomen authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesWomen born in the 1880s
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"Experience", st. 1. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 17
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Aline Murray Kilmer
Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer.
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