American

Elizabeth Akers Allen

1832–1911


Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), born Elizabeth Chase in Strong, Maine, was an American poet and journalist who wrote early under the pen name Florence Percy. She published Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine in 1856.

Her best-known poem, "Rock Me to Sleep", appeared in 1859 and was among the most widely reprinted American poems of its day.

  1. Sea-Birds
  2. My Dearling
  3. The Last Landlord
  4. In a Garret
  5. Rock Me to Sleep
  6. My Ship
  7. Endurance
  8. Left Behind
  9. Snow
  10. Until Death
  11. Lost Light
  12. Bringing Our Sheaves with Us
  13. Little Feet

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