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Verses

Susan Coolidge

Book Overview: 

Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the first of three volumes of her verse.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .O ghost or angel of my buried love,
  I know not, care not which, be welcome here!
  Welcome, thrice welcome, to this heart of mine!"
  I heard him say, and then I heard no more.

  It was high noontide when I woke again,
  To hear fierce voices wrangling by my bed,—
  My father's and my husband's; for, with dawn,
  Gathering up valor, they had sought the tomb,
  Had found me gone, and tracked my bleeding feet
  Over the pavement to Antonio's door.
  Dead, they cared nothing: living, I was, theirs.
  Hot raged the quarrel; then came Justice in,
  And to the court we swept—I in my shroud—
  To try the cause.

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Community Reviews

This short volume of poetry is a good example of Victorian Romantic poetry. Many of the poems have love, nature, or scriptural themes. The messages maybe aren't particularly profound, but the poems sound beautiful.

Tiresome. There are basically two poems that are enjoyable, and the rest are very samey apart from another two I find objectionable.

Read (SC is long dead and her work out of copyright so you can easily find these online):
- The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey (search for a photo of the tomb; the po