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American

Lizette Woodworth Reese

1856–1935

Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856–1935) was an American poet, born near Baltimore, Maryland, who taught English in Baltimore schools for many years.

Her first book, A Branch of May (1887), began a long career of spare, finely made lyrics, among them the sonnet “Tears”.

Poems (22)

  1. Tears
  2. The Dust
  3. Spicewood
  4. That Day You Came
  5. Love came back at Fall o' Dew
  6. A Rhyme of Death's Inn
  7. Lydia
  8. Anne
  9. Daffodils
  10. Immortality
  11. Thomas à Kempis
  12. Telling the Bees
  13. In Time of Grief
  14. To a Town Poet
  15. Trust
  16. A Holiday
  17. Keats
  18. Reserve
  19. Wise
  20. Lydia Is Gone This Many a Year
  21. After
  22. The Road of Remembrance

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