Who is Dora Read Goodale

Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) and Dora Read Goodale (1866–1953) were American poets and sisters from Massachusetts. They published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).

Elaine Goodale taught at the Indian Department of Hampton Institute, started a day school on a Dakota reservation in 1886, and was appointed as Superintendent of Indian Education for the Two Dakotas by 1890. She married Dr. Charles Eastman (also known as Ohiye S'a), a Santee Sioux who was the first Native American to graduate from medical school and become a physician. They lived with their growing family in the West for several years. Goodale collaborated with him in writing about his childhood and Sioux cu...
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  • The Feast-time Of The Year
    This is the feast-time of the year,
    When plenty pours her wine of cheer,
    And even humble boards may spare
    To poorer poor a kindly share....
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Poor 1 Time 1 Humble 1 Year 1 Share 1 Golden 1


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Melaniejaxn: a day comes in the springtime when earth puts forth her powers, casts off the bonds of winter and lights him hence with flowers... ~dora read goodale
Ka_crittenden: element - wind "the autumn wood the aster knows, / the empty nest, the wind that grieves, / the sunlight breaking thro' the shade," - "asters," by dora read goodale
Melaniejaxn: hope is a roving gypsy with laughter on her tongue, and the blue sky and sunshine alone, can keep her young; and year by year she lingers under a budding tree... ~dora read goodale
Kevblue777: the icicles now fringe the trees that swayed in summer's gentle breeze, when summer days were fair. –dora read goodale (1866–1915)
Platospupil: the icicles now fringe the trees that swayed in summer's gentle breeze, when summer days were fair. –dora read goodale (1866–1915)
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