Death in the wood,— In the death-pale lips apart; Death in … - Elaine Goodale Eastman

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Death in the wood,—
In the death-pale lips apart; Death in a whiteness that curdled the blood,
Now black to the very heart: The wonder by her was formed
Who stands supreme in power; To show that life by the spirit comes
She gave us a soulless flower!

Elaine Goodale Eastman

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About Elaine Goodale Eastman

Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) was an American poet along with her sister of Dora Read Goodale. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).

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Birth Name: Elainse Goodale

Alternative Names: Elaine Goodale • Elaine Eastman

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With careless joy we thread the woodland ways
And reach her broad domain.
Thro' sense of strength and beauty, free as air.
We feel our savage kin, And thus alone with conscious meaning wear
The Indian's moccasin!

The seal and guerdon of wealth untold
We clasp in the wild marsh marigold.

Skirting the rocks at the forest edge
With a running flame from ledge to ledge,
Or swaying deeper in shadowy glooms,
A smoldering fire in her dusky blooms;
Bronzed and molded by wind and sun,
Maddening, gladdening every one
With a gypsy beauty full and fine,—
A health to the crimson columbine!

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