Poems

by Lucy Larcom

1869. Lucy Larcom was a popular poet and writer. While working as a cotton-operative in the mills she contributed largely to the Lowell Offering, writing for the first volumes a series of parables that attracted attention. The poet, John G. Whittier, then conducting a Free-soil paper in Lowell, encouraged her literary efforts. She later taught and when Our Young Folks was established in Boston in 1865, she became an assistant and in the following year chief editor. This volume is a complete collection of her verse.

292 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 2006

About the author

Lucy Larcom was an American teacher, poet, and author. Larcom was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary, now Wheaton College. Her autobiography, published in 1889, is a valuable resource in determining what childhood was like in New England during her time.