Red Leaves.
Red leaves—
Aflame in the air, aflame in the trees.
Blue streams, smoky hills—
Gold, gold the sunlight spills—
Red leaves!
Dead Leaves—
A swirl in the air-asleep 'neath the
trees.
Gone every lark and swallow—
Haunting echoes bid me follow—
Dead leaves!
Bessie May Bellman—
Mrs. Henthorne's "If" is published in a New York reader.
"If, in a bird-heart, beating 'neath the gray
There chants a song, no matter what the
day.
If, in a bird-heart happy sunbeams shine,
Why not in mine?
If, in a flower-face, beat down by rain,
The hope of clear skies be in spite of
pain—
If, in a flower-face a great hope shine,
Why not in mine?"
AMANDA T. JONES.
One of the few Kansas women to have a place in "Who's Who" was the late Amanda T. Jones of Junction City. She was one of the most prolific poets of Kansas.
Her "Atlantic" is a story of the rebellion; "Utah and Other Poems;" "A Prairie Idyl;" "Flowers and a Weed;" and "Rubaiyat of Solomon Valley" are volumes of verse. Her prose: "Children's Stories," "Fairy Arrows" and "The White Blackbird;" "A Psychic Autobiography," published in 1908; "Man and Priest," a story of psychic detection; "Mother of Pioneers," and a novel ready for publication, "A Daughter of Wall St."