Who is Anna Hempstead Branch

Anna Hempstead Branch (March 18, 1875 – September 8, 1937) was an American poet. She was regarded as a major poet during her life and William Thomas Stead called her "the Browning of American poetry".

Early life

Branch was born at Hempsted House in New London, Connecticut in 1875, the younger child of John Locke Branch, a lawyer, and Mary Lydia Bolles Branch (1840–1922), a children's author and poet who was part of Hempstead family, who had lived in the area since 1640 and owned some of the oldest houses in southeast Connecticut.

Education

Branch spent most of her school years in New York and Brooklyn where she studied at Froebel and Adelphi Academies and then Smith College, due to her father's law practice being in that area.

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Anna Hempstead Branch Poems

• To A New York Shop-girl Dressed For Sunday
  To-day I saw the shop-girl go
  Down gay Broadway to meet her beau.
  
  Conspicuous, splendid, conscious, sweet,...
• The Name
  When I come back from secret dreams
  In gardens deep and fair,
  How very curious it seems-
  This mortal name I bear....
• The Monk In The Kitchen
  I
  
  Order is a lovely thing;
  On disarray it lays its wing,...
• Songs For My Mother
  I
  Her Hands
  
  My mother's hands are cool and fair,...
• Grieve Not, Ladies
  Oh, grieve not, Ladies, if at night
  Ye wake to feel your beauty going.
  It was a web of frail delight,
  Inconstant as an April snowing....

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