Karle Wilson Baker
Who is Karle Wilson Baker
Karle Wilson Baker (née Wilson; 1878–1960) was an American poet and author, born in Little Rock, Ark. to Kate Florence Montgomery Wilson and William Thomas Murphey Wilson. Educated at the University of Chicago, she studied under poet William Vaughn Moody and novelist Robert Herrick, and later went on to write her own poems and novels.
Early publications
Under the pseudonym of "Charlotte Wilson," she was co-author of Women and Prisons (1912), published in London by the Fabian Society. She contributed fiction and poetry to Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, The Century, etc., and was the author of Blue Smoke, a collection of poetry (1919), The Garden of the Plynck (1920), The Burning Bush (1922), and Old Coins (1923).
Early life in Nacogdoches, ...
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Karle Wilson Baker Poems
- Within The Alamo
He drew a straight line
Across the dirt floor:
Within, it was death-still--
Without, was a roar
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- I Shall Be Loved As Quiet Things
I shall be loved as quiet things
Are loved--white pigeons in the sun,
Curled yellow leaves that whisper down
One after one;
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- The Tree
My life is a tree,
Yoke-fellow of the earth;
Pledged,
By roots too deep for remembrance,
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- Poet's Song
Droppâ??d feather from the wings of God
My little songs and snatches are,
So light He does not hear them fall
As He goes by, from star to star.
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- Texas Cowboy
From garden-beds I tend, it is not far
To those great ranges where he used to ride;
Timeâ??s shadowy Door still stands a rift ajar,
And Fancy, glancing backward and aside,...
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- Annacolleenm: "today i have a grown taller from walking with the trees."
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