I lived from 1850-1950. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
Probably best known for the poem “The Master’s Hand” written in 1921, Myra Brooks Welch was born sometime in the late 19th Century in America. No one knows just when. She was a resident of La Verne, California. As a youngster her special joy was playing the organ but this was denied her in later life as she suffered badly from arthritis and spent much of her time in a wheelchair. She wrote with an inverted pencil in each of her gnarled hands and would pick out the words on a type writer. She said that the joy of her writing outweighed the pain of her efforts. She was known as “The poet with the singing soul”
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My poetry
- 'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer
Thought it scarcely worth his while43 lines
