Mary Gardiner Horsford Earth Poems

Total 14 Earth Poems by Mary Gardiner Horsford

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Michael Maloney: The list above are Gardiner’s poems in her Book “Indian Legends and Other Poems” published in 1855. It is missing “The Dying Year.” I have located 21 additional poems in periodicals and manuscripts and am publishing a critical edition that will include all of her known works. She was a highly gifted 19th-century American Romantic Poet, who, like most women poets at the time, was overlooked due to patriarchal discrimination.

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In A Silence
 by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

Heart to heart!
And the stillness of night and the moonlight, like hushed breathing
Silently, stealthily moving across thy hair!

O womanly face!
Tender and strong and lucent with infinite feeling,
Shrinking with startled joy, like wind-struck water,
And yet so frank, so unashamed of love!
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