Amelia Josephine Burr (November 19, 1878 – June 15, 1968) was an American poet. Born in New York City, she was educated at and graduated from

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(New York). She worked for the Red Cross in 1917–18. She married Reverend Carl H. Elmore of

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. She was described as a "popular lyricist, whose work yet flashes with genuine poetic feeling" and was reputed to have traveled widely. A contemporary source commented, "Her adventures in the

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have colored her work, and with energy and charm she succeeded in getting to know much concerning the natives and their customs wherever she went. Much of her verse must, of course, be classed as balladry, and it is as a balladist that she has gained a wide audience, but, especially in her later work, there is much more than graceful appeal."

Selected works

Poetical works

* ''A Roadside Fire,'' 1913 * ''Afterglow,'' a poem 1913 * ''In Deep Places,'' 1914 * ''Life and Living'' 1916 * ''The Silver Trumpet'' 1918 * ''Hearts Awake: The Pixy, A play,'' 1919 :The above two volumes relate chiefly to World War I * ''A child garden in India, for very little people: Verses'' 1922 * ''Little houses: A book of poems'' 1923 * ''Selected lyrics'' 1927

Novels

* ''A Dealer in Empire; A Romance'' 1915 * ''The Three Fires: A Story of Ceylon'' 1922

Sources

* ''The Bookman Anthology of Verse'' (1922) *

External links

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Works by Amelia Josephine Burr
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Poem: Rain In The Night
1878 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American poets American women poets Hunter College alumni 20th-century American women writers {{US-poet-1870s-stub