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Susan Coolidge

VersesSusan Coolidge Verses TO J. H. AND E. W. H Nourished by peaceful suns and gracious dew, Your sweet youth budded and your sweet lives grew, And all the world seemed rose-beset for you. The rose of beauty was your mutual dower, The stainless rose of love, an early flower, The stately blooms o...

What Katy DidSusan Coolidge What Katy Did TO FIVE Six of us once, my darlings, played together Beneath green boughs, which faded long ago,Made merry in the golden summer weather, Pelted each other with new-fallen snow. Did the sun always shine? I can't remember A single cloud that dimmed the happ...

What Katy Did NextSusan Coolidge What Katy Did Next CHAPTER I AN UNEXPECTED GUEST The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The half-fin...

What Katy Did at SchoolSusan Coolidge What Katy Did at School CHAPTER I. CONIC SECTION It was just after that happy visit of which I told at the end of "What Katy Did," that Elsie and John made their famous excursion to Conic Section; an excursion which neither of them ever forgot, and about whic...

CloverSusan Coolidge Clover CHAPTER I A TALK ON THE DOORSTEPSIt was one of those afternoons in late April which are as mild and balmy as any June day. The air was full of the chirps and twitters of nest-building birds, and of sweet indefinable odors from half-developed leaf-buds and cherry and pe...

A Few More VersesSusan Coolidge A Few More Verses GIVING to all, thou gavest as well to me.A myriad thirsty shores await the tide:They drink and drink, and will not be denied;But not a drop less full the brimming Sea. One tiny shell among the kelp and weed,One sand-grain where the beaches stretch...

Who ate the pink sweetmeat?Susan Coolidge Who ate the pink sweetmeat? / And Other Christmas Stories WHO ATE THE PINK SWEETMEAT? Only three pairs of stockings were left in the shop. It was a very little shop indeed, scarcely larger than a stall. Job Tuke, to whom it belonged, was not rich enough t...

Last VersesLast Verses SUSAN COOLIDGE SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY (Susan Coolidge) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, January 29, 1835. Her father, John M. Woolsey, a New Yorker, had come to Cleveland to attend to property owned by his father, and had there met Jane Andrews, a charming and graceful girl fro...

A Little Country GirlSusan Coolidge A Little Country Girl CHAPTER I. ON THE "EOLUS." IT was on one of the cool, brilliant days which early June brings to the Narragansett country, that the steamer "Eolus" pushed out from Wickford Pier on her afternoon trip to Newport. The sky was of a beautiful t...

Just Sixteen.Just Sixteen A LITTLE KNIGHT OF LABOR THE first real snow-storm of the winter had come to Sandyport by the Sea.It had been a late and merciful autumn. Till well into November the leaves still clung to their boughs, honeysuckles made shady coverts on trellises, and put forth now and t...