Highways and byways / Amelia Josephine Burr Elmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burr, Amelia Josephine, 1878-1968, author.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Burr, Amelia Josephine, 1878-1968 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], 42 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : [publisher not identified], [1933]

Contents:

Highways and byways

Forest symphony

What's in a name?

Frost

To a little house asleep for the winter

Flying colors

Mountain stream

At the zoo in Kyoto

The bear

Personality

In praise of certain monkeys

A dog's eye view

Sleepy bumblebee

Evolution

Thieves

Peepers

Humming bird

The way it is

Protest

My friend Venice

Colonial

Luini's Saint Catherine

The announcer

Behind a suburban hedge

Cathedral city

Prayer before a pilgrimage

Roads of Palestine

Nazareth

Return

Thanks for silence

Islands

Growing old

Home.

Notes:

"Printed in U.S.A."--Verso of title leaf.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("For Anne and Blanche with love from all their friends in the Manse, especially A.J.B.E. Christmas 1933."), recording the gift of this volume from the author (i.e. Amelia Josephine Burr Elmore) on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in two leaves of photoreproduction of the author's poem Indian summer from The Sewanee review 29.1 (January 1921), page 65.

OCLC:

1264167102