Dora Read Goodale
Who is Dora Read Goodale
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) were American poets and sisters from Massachusetts. They published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).Elaine Goodale taught at the Indian Department of Hampton Institute, started a day school on a Dakota reservation in 1886, and was appointed as Superintendent of Indian Education for the Two Dakotas by 1890. She married Dr. Charles Eastman (also known as Ohiye S'a), a Santee Sioux who was the first Native American to graduate from medical school and become a physician. They lived with their growing family in the West for several years. Goodale collaborated with him in writing about his childhood and Sioux culture; his...
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- Melaniejaxn: a day comes in the springtime
when earth puts forth her powers,
casts off the bonds of winter
and lights him hence with flowers...
~dora read goodale
- Ka_crittenden: element - wind
"the autumn wood the aster knows, / the empty nest, the wind that grieves, / the sunlight breaking thro' the shade," - "asters," by dora read goodale
- Melaniejaxn: hope is a roving gypsy
with laughter on her tongue,
and the blue sky and sunshine
alone, can keep her young;
and year by year she lingers
under a budding tree...
~dora read goodale
- Kevblue777: the icicles now fringe the trees
that swayed in summer's gentle breeze,
when summer days were fair.
–dora read goodale (1866–1915)
- Platospupil: the icicles now fringe the trees
that swayed in summer's gentle breeze,
when summer days were fair.
–dora read goodale (1866–1915)
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