Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Anna Hempstead Branch

I lived from 1875-1937. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

Anna Hempstead Branch was born in Connecticut, USA in 1875.
She won a poetry competition for Century Magazine in 1898 (The Road Twixt Heaven and Hell)
She died in 1937
JS

Read full description by Oldpoetry Research Team...

Links of interest include http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/poem1/blp_branch_bio.htm

Popular poetry

Search my poetry:
1 - 10 of 17  Show all by written, popularity, title, first line
  • Ere The Golden Bowl Is Broken
    He gathered for His own delight
    The sparkling waters of my soul.
    52 lines, 1 comment
  • Dream
    But now the Dream has come again, the world is as of old.
    Once more I feel about my breast the heartening splendors fold.
    32 lines
  • While Loveliness Goes By
    Sometimes when all the world seems grey and dun
    And nothing beautiful, a voice will cry,
    17 lines
  • Selene
    But when Endymion, wandering alone,
    With youth and love of loveliness forlorn,
    497 lines
  • The Monk In The Kitchen
    ORDER is a lovely thing; 
    On disarray it lays its wing, 
    125 lines
  • Connecticut Road Song
    In the wide and rocky pasture where the cedar trees are gray,
    The briar rose was growing with the blueberry and bay.
    40 lines
  • The Warrior Maid
    They bade me to my spinning
    Because I was a maid,
    52 lines
  • Nimrod
    PART I
    ONE time, in Shinar, when the setting sun,
    2065 lines
  • The Wedding Feast
    PART I
    Oh who art thou—thou fearful guest—
    826 lines
  • Dominus Vineae; Spiritus Agricola
    Once more among our archangelic hills
    The streets of this old, grave, and gracious town
    255 lines
1 - 10 of 17  Show all by written, popularity, title, first line

Start a forum topic about this poet

, Content