Who is Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893) was an American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. During that time, she co-founded Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student literary magazine which is still published. From 1865 to 1873, she was the editor of the Boston-based Our Young Folks, which merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. In 1889, Larcom published one of the best-known accounts of New England childhood of her time, A New England Girlhood, commonly used as a reference in studying antebellum American childhood; the autobiographical text covers the early years of her life in Beverly Farms and Lowell, Massachusetts.Among her earli...Read Full Biography of Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom Poems
- The Brown Thrush
There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree.
“He's singing to me! He's singing to me!”
And what does he say, little girl, little boy?
“Oh, the world's running over with joy!... - Calling The Violet
Dear little Violet,
Don't be afraid!
Lift your blue eyes
From the rock's mossy shade!...
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Maxfortp: “he who plants a tree. plants a hope.” – lucy larcom maxfort school, pitampura participated in international forests day celebrated by the department of environment and forest, government of nct of delhi.Avsadan: cheerful international day of forests! he who plants a tree, plants a hope. ~ lucy larcom
1gre_bot: if the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - lucy larcom
Floridaquatic: “a drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” – lucy larcom
1gre_bot: if the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - lucy larcom
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