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I gave thee what could not be heard
What had not been given before
The beat of my heart I gave !

Edith M. Thomas

Throughout the winter, nature's active and crescent principle seems never held wholly in abeyance. From time to time, some precocious member of a dormant family, plant or animal, may be observed awake and stirring, as one who, having much on hand to accomplish, makes an early start by candle-light.

Edith M. Thomas

Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

Edith M. Thomas

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

Edith M. Thomas

The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.

Edith M. Thomas

Edith M. Thomas

Edith M. Thomas

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Born: August 12, 1854

Died: September 13, 1925 (aged 71)

Bio: Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who "was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city."

Known for:

In sunshine land
A Winter Swallow, With Other Verse (1896)
Fair Shadow Land (1893)
The White Messenger, and Other War Poems (1915)
The dancers (1903)

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