Amelia Walstien Carpenter

Amelia Walstien Carpenter (born 1840) was an American poet and story-writer, born at Stephentown, New York. At eighteen she married Cromwell Carpenter, with whom she lived in Kalamazoo and St. Louis, returning to her native town after his death.

Her poems and stories appeared in The Springfield Republican, The Christian Union, Lippincott's Magazine and other periodicals. Stedman included three of her poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.