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Louise Imogen Guiney

I lived from 1861-1920. I was from the USA, and am in the Americas category.

I was influenced by poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Louise Guiney was educated at Elmhurst, a convent school in Providence, Rhode Island.

To help support her family she began contributing to various newspapers and magazines. Her poems, collected in Songs at the Start (1884) and The White Sail and Other Poems (1887), and her essays, collected in Goose Quill Papers (1885), soon attracted the attention of the Boston literary establishment, and the verse in A Roadside Harp (1893) and the essays in Monsieur Henri (1892), A Little English Gallery (1894), and Patrins (1897) brought her to the center of aesthetic life in Boston.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Thomas W. Higginson, and Edmund Clarence Stedman were among her friends and patrons, and on visits

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  • Friendship Broken
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    We chose the faint chill morning, friend and friend,
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  • A Song of the Lilac
    Above the wall that's broken,
    And from the coppice thinned,
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  • Fog
    Like bodiless water passing in a sigh,
    Thro' palsied streets the fatal shadows flow,
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  • A Friend's Song for Simoisius
    The breath of dew, and twilight's grace,
    Be on the lonely battle-place;
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  • Summum Bonum
    Waiting on Him who knows us and our need,
    Most need have we to dare not, nor desire,
    14 lines
  • On First Entering Westminster Abbey
    Thabor of England! since my light is short
    And faint, O rather by the sun anew
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  • Brook Farm
    Down the long road, bent and brown,
    Youth, that dearly loves a vision,
    24 lines
  • Among the Flags
    In Doric Hall, Massachussetts State House
    Dear witnesses, all-luminous, eloquent,
    15 lines
  • Peter Rugg the Bostonian
    I
    The mare is pawing by the oak,
    199 lines
  • Saint Florent-le-Vieil
    The spacious open vale, the vale of doom,
    Is full of autumn sunset; blue and strong
    14 lines
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