Mary Emily Bradley

Mary Emily Bradley (1835–1898) was an American poet and writer of stories for girls, born at Easton, Maryland, and later living in New York and Washington. She was encouraged in her verse-writing by Richard Henry Stoddard and published the volume Hidden Sweetness in 1886.

The poems here are taken from Edmund Clarence Stedman’s An American Anthology, 1787–1900 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900).