Martina Swafford
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Martina Swafford (née , Funkhouser; pen name, Belle Bremer; July 26, 1845 – June 29, 1913) was an American poet. Widely known by her pen-name, "Belle Bremer", her vision was greatly impaired, so much so that much of the time she was unable to read or write. Swafford was a native of Indiana, and by education, environment, and primary attachments, she was an Indiana poet. Yet she called herself semi-Southern, because of her Virginian parentage and her own yearly temporary home in the South. She spent her winters at Huntsville, Alabama, a noted health resort of the time, where much of her poetical work was done. It was said that the cheerful, hopeful tone of these poems, made more effective by an underlying pathos, was a pleasing contrast to the melancholy which marred the work of so many ver
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Martina Swafford
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Martina Swafford
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Martina Swafford
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Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
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1913-06-29
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Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
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1845-07-26
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Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Indiana
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1845-07-26
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Marthena Funkhouser
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"A Woman of the Century"
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1913-06-29
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English
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American
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Wych-elm, poems
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poet
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I have brought them from their hiding,
Where they've lain these many years,
And have tried to read them over,
But I acnnot for the tears.
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1862
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1900
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died
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Benjamin Franklin Swafford
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Letters, a poetic quote
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Martina Swafford (née , Funkhouser; pen name, Belle Bremer; July 26, 1845 – June 29, 1913) was an American poet. Widely known by her pen-name, "Belle Bremer", her vision was greatly impaired, so much so that much of the time she was unable to read or write. Swafford was a native of Indiana, and by education, environment, and primary attachments, she was an Indiana poet. Yet she called herself semi-Southern, because of her Virginian parentage and her own yearly temporary home in the South. She spent her winters at Huntsville, Alabama, a noted health resort of the time, where much of her poetical work was done. It was said that the cheerful, hopeful tone of these poems, made more effective by an underlying pathos, was a pleasing contrast to the melancholy which marred the work of so many versemakers of the time. Swafford died in 1913.
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Belle Bremer
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Marthena Funkhouser
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Belle Bremer