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Re: Moods of March / Ellen P. Allerton

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:29:43 +0000
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by: W.Dockery - Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:29 UTC

Zod wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>> On 2024-02-12 4:01 p.m., Zod wrote:
>> > George J. Dance wrote:
>
>> >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> >> Moods of March, by Ellen P. Allerton
>> >> [...]
>> >> Loud is the voice of the raging storm;
>> >> As the fierce gusts come and go;
>> >> Black are the panes where the black night leans
>> >> Like a homeless ghost in the snow
>> >> [...]
>> >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/03/moods-of-march-ellen-p-allerton.html
>> >>
>> >> #pennyspoems
>> >
>> > Very good, new poet to me...
>> >
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Palmer_Allerton
>> >
>> > **************** Ellen Palmer Allerton (October 17, 1835 – August 31, 1893) was an American poet whose inspiration probably came from her life on farms in rural New York, Wisconsin, and Kansas. She is best remembered for the poems Beautiful Things, The Trail of Forty-Nine and Walls of Corn **************************
>> This turns out to be the third poem I've used by her. I haven't been
>> able to add much to the Wikipedia bio on PPP, just a few links to poems
>> (on the blog and Poetry Nook, which has over 100), and a reading I found
>> online of her poem, "Blackbirds".
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuSFj0A_5g

> Again... lovely work...

Agreed, good one.

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