Amelia Coppuck Welby

Amelia Coppuck Welby (1819–1852) was an American poet who wrote for the Louisville Journal and was popular in her day. Her verses were gathered in Poems by Amelia (1844).

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