Ella Higginson

Ella Higginson (1862–1940), born Ella Rhoads in Council Grove, Kansas, was an American poet and short-story writer who lived in Bellingham, Washington, and wrote of the Pacific Northwest. Her books of verse include When the Birds Go North Again (1898).

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