Dora Greenwell

Dora Greenwell (1821–1882) was an English poet and devotional writer born in County Durham. Her volumes include Poems (1848) and Carmina Crucis (1869), and she wrote essays on religious and social questions.

Her poem “Songs of Farewell: Death”, a meditation on the seasons that will return when the speaker is gone, was chosen for Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).