Sophie Jewett

Sophie Jewett (1861–1909), born in Moravia, New York, was an American poet and teacher who also wrote under the name Ellen Burroughs. From 1889 she taught at Wellesley College, where she became associate professor of English literature, and her verse was collected in The Pilgrim, and Other Poems (1896).

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