Poems by Gertrude Alger

Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Beacon Press, Boston, MA 1890. Signed by Author's niece on blank page with Presentation notation. Scarce. First Edition. 100 pages. 1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. Miss Gertrude Alger was a very young poet of merit, who produced graceful and finished poems. Born in Yarmouthport, Massachusetts on May 19, 1868, she died October 25, 1889, at the age of twenty-one. These poems were arranged by her mother. This memorial volume is Gertrude's only published work. Poems are presented by year of composition 1882-1888. One or two of her poems found their place in late nineteenth century collections of contemporaneous poetry. 1885 poem titled 'Summer Rain': Spirits of the summer shower,/ Tiptoeing from flower to flower,/ Here and there, and everywhere,/ tripping! tripping!/ In between the petals fair/ Of the blossoms, slipping, slipping!/ Dancing over/ Rosy beds of nodding clover!/ And I hear - or is it fancy/ All the garden flowers dipping,/ Swaying, tipping;/ Every rose and purple pansy/ Curtsying, now here, now there,/ Light as air;/ Bending low its pretty head/ 'Neath the shower-spirits' tread. Signed Poetry::Before 1900 RBR17

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Publisher: Beacon Press

Year: 1890

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Binding: Hardcover

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