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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Abolitionist, poet, early feminist, and novelist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most prolific writers and fervent activists. Yet, due to an act of negligence in the 1950s, many of her

Featured Poem
Appeal to the American People, An
When a dark and fearful strife
Raged around the nation's life,
And the traitor plunged his steel
Where your quivering hearts could feel,
5When your cause did need a friend,
We were faithful to the end.
When we stood with bated breath,
Facing fiery storms of death,
And the war-cloud, red with wrath,
Poets Book of Days
February 10
Alexander Puskin dies of wounds sustained in a duel defending his wife's honor, on this day in 1837.

Poetry Trivia
Question:
What German poet penned a complex theory of optics?
Answer
Johann Wolfgang Goethe. He published his Theory of Colors in 1810.
