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Frieda Werden (12/18/2005 1:09:00 PM)
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After reading the poems on this site, I think there must be others of hers that are better and less sentimental - otherwise I can't believe an old atheist cynic like Mencken would be so fond of her.
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Frieda Werden (12/18/2005 12:04:00 PM)
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'Lizette Woodworth Reese...has written more sound poetry, more genuinely eloquent and beautiful poetry, than all the New Poets put together - more than a whole posse of Masterses and Lindays, more than a hundred Amy Lowells.'
-H.L. Mencken, in 'The New Poetry Movement' (found in the book: Prejudices, First Series, published in 1919 by Knopf)
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''The little Jesus came to town;
With ox and sheep He laid Him down;
Peace to the byre, peace to the fold,
For that they housed Him from the cold!''
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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935), U.S. poet. A Christmas Folk-Song (l. 13-16). . .
Our Holidays in Poetry. Mildred P. Harrington and Josephine ...
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''Loose me from tears, and make me see aright
How each hath back what once he stayed to weep;
Homer his sight, David his little lad!''
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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935), U.S. poet. Tears (l. 12-14). . .
Anthology of American Poetry. George Gesner, ed. (1983) Avenel Books.
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