American

Zitella Cocke

1840–1929


Julia Zitella Cocke (1840–1929) was an American poet, born in Marion, Alabama, of a Virginian planter family. She wrote verse from childhood.

In the early 1890s she moved to Boston, where she worked as a translator at the Boston Public Library, and her poems appeared in the leading American magazines of her day.

  1. Miss Nancy’s Gown
  2. My Cross

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