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Louise Chandler Moulton

1835–1908

Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) was an American poet and journalist, born at Pomfret, Connecticut, and long resident in Boston. She contributed to the Boston Herald, and spent many seasons in London, where she knew leading writers of the day.

Her verse, collected in several volumes, is lyrical and often melancholy.

Poems (15)

  1. The House of Death
  2. To Night
  3. A Painted Fan
  4. The Shadow Dance
  5. Laus Veneris
  6. Hic Jacet
  7. The Last Good-By
  8. Were But My Spirit Loosed upon the Air
  9. We Lay Us Down to Sleep
  10. Louisa M. Alcott
  11. Love's Resurrection Day
  12. Somebody's Child
  13. "The Spring is Late"
  14. A Summer Wooing
  15. A Tryst

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