“Throughout the winter, nature's active and crescent principle seems…” — Edith M. Thomas

“Throughout the winter, nature's active and crescent principle seems never held wholly in abeyance.”

Finding persistent life and renewal beneath the apparent stillness of winter · Prose, The Round Year, 1886

About Edith M. Thomas

12 August 1854–13 September 1925

Edith Matilda Thomas was born on 12 August 1854 in Chatham, Ohio, and died on 13 September 1925 in New York City. During her lifetime she was admired as one of the most accomplished American lyric poets of the late nineteenth century, praised by editors, fellow writers, and readers for verse that joined close…

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