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"The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" is a poem written by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843. It details the religious persecution of Cassandra Southwick's youngest daughter Provided Southwick, a Quaker woman who lived in Salem, Massachusetts and is the only white female known to be put up at auction as a slave in the United States.
The poem was well received, but not a financial success for its author. The poem was written in the context of the Battle of Wyoming. The poem begins: On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring, Of what thy gentle people did befall;
The Spring of the White-Legged Woman (Bulgarian: Изворът на Белоногата, romanized: Izvorat na Belonogata) is a poem written in 1873 by the famous Bulgarian poet Petko Slaveykov. [1] The story is about a beautiful Bulgarian girl, Gergana.
"They flee from me" is a poem written by Thomas Wyatt. [1] It is written in rhyme royal and was included in Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition of the Oxford Book of English Verse. [2] The poem has been described as possibly autobiographical, and referring to any one of Wyatt's affairs with high-born women of the court of Henry VIII, perhaps with ...
Print shows Maud Muller, John Greenleaf Whittier's heroine in the poem of the same name, leaning on her hay rake, gazing into the distance. Behind her, an ox cart, and in the distance, the village "Maud Muller" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller.
Transcendental Wild Oats: A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance is a prose satire written by Louisa May Alcott, about her family's involvement with the Transcendentalist community Fruitlands [1] in the early 1840s. The work was first published in a New York newspaper in 1873, [2] and reprinted in 1874, [3] 1876, [4] and 1915 [5] and after.
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For nearly sixty years the poem was republished with credit going to Ethan Allen. [3] The confusion was perpetuated in part by Henry Stevens, a co-founder of the Vermont Historical Society. In 1843, Stevens presented the poem to the Society as one by Allen which he had "discovered". The discovery was also reported in the Vermont Chronicle. [2]