United States, Poet April 16, 1881 – July, 18, 1949.
Alice Corbin Henderson was an American poet, author and poetry editor.
With a burro to ride and a burro to drive, There is hardly a man so rich alive.
Here is the desert of silence, Blinking and blind in the sun-- An old, old woman who mumbles her beads And crumbles to stone.
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
One will never remember A greater thing when one dies Than sunlight falling aslant long rows of corn, Or rainy days heavy with grey sullen skies.
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