Who is Amelia Josephine Burr

Amelia Josephine Burr (November 19, 1878 – June 15, 1968) was an American poet. Born in New York City, she was educated at and graduated from Hunter College (New York). She worked for the Red Cross in 1917–18. She married Reverend Carl H. Elmore of Englewood, New Jersey.

She was described as a "popular lyricist, whose work yet flashes with genuine poetic feeling" and was reputed to have traveled widely. A contemporary source commented, "Her adventures in the Orient have colored her work, and with energy and charm she succeeded in getting to know much concerning the natives and their customs wherever she went. Much of her verse must, of course, be classed as balladry, and it is as a balladist that she has gained a wide audience, but, especially in her later work, there is much ...
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Amelia Josephine Burr Poems

• Where Love Is
  By the rosy cliffs of Devon, on a green hill's crest,
  I would build me a house as a swallow builds its nest;
  I would curtain it with roses, and the wind should breathe to me
  The sweetness of the roses and the saltness of the sea....
• A Lynmouth Widow
  He was straight and strong, and his eyes were blue
  As the summer meeting of sky and sea,
  And the ruddy cliffs had a colder hue
  Than flushed his cheek when he married me....

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