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Sparklin...)
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Sparkling as the dew-drops gleaming On her path, or sunlight streaming Through her tresses - graceful, fair.
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My young heart then was wild with glee, And basked in pleasure's golden noon; My dark hair fell in waving Showers Upon my neck and o'er my brow.
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A Louisville courier-journal, during the winter Of 1874, took notice of a single cornstalk, in some Western field, upon which grew five ears, blood-red, and clinging together in the exact Shape of a human hand.
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Rosa Vertner Griffith Johnson Jeffrey was an American poet and novelist.
Background
Jeffrey was born in 1828, in Natchez, Mississippi, the daughter of John Y. Griffith, himself a writer of both prose and verse, and well known for his Indian stories, which received the distinction of being widely copied in English journals of his day. Her mother, daughter of the Rev. James Abercrombie, a Philadelphia clergyman of note, died when the baby was only nine months old. The child was immediately adopted by a maternal aunt, Rosa Vertner, and spent an unusually happy girlhood, near Port Gibson, Mississippi, on her aunt's beautiful country estate "Burlington. "
Education
By the time Jeffrey was ten years old she had shown such talent, that the Vertners decided to move to Kentucky for her better education. She entered the Episcopal Seminary of Bishop Smith at Lexington, which enjoyed a considerable reputation in the South, and was commended as "a polished scholar and intelligent student of history and literature. "
Career
At the age of fifteen Jeffrey wrote "The Legend of the Opal, " and at seventeen she was married. During her married life she was known as a social leader in Southern cities, including Washington, D. C. In 1850 she became a contributor to the Louisville Journal under the pen name of "Rosa, " and here were first printed many of the poems that were to make her the first Southern woman whose literary work attracted attention throughout the United States. Poems appeared in 1857, and its success called for a second edition the next year. After the death of her husband in 1861, Mrs. Johnson moved with her children to Rochester, New York, where she met and married (1863) the second time. She remained in Rochester during the period of the Civil War, afterwards returning to the Vertner home in Lexington, Kentucky. Her first novel, Woodburn, appeared in 1864, and from then until 1884, when her last work, Marah, was published, she produced both poetry - Daisy Dare and Baby Power (1871), The Crimson Hand (1881) - and fiction, and, although they were never published, several dramas. Jeffrey died in Lexington at the age of sixty-six, on October 6, 1894. While the poems of "Rosa" are far too expansive, sentimental, and florid for the taste of a later day than her own, they have an authentic spontaneity and exuberance which mark her as a natural poet. Her inspiration was so apparently exhaustless, and so slightly restrained by the simple metres which she always used, that such poems as "Hasheesh Visions" and "Daisy Dare" ran into an astounding number of stanzas. Her poetry seems the undisciplined flowering of an extremely happy and responsive nature. Beauty, wealth, and charm held at bay the rigors of life which might have deepened a fine talent into something much more.
In 1845, Jeffrey was married, at the age of 17, to Claude M. Johnson (d. 1861), a wealthy citizen of Lexington. They had six children, two of whom died young. After the husband's death, she and the four children removed to Rochester, New York, where she met and married Alexander Jeffrey of Edinburgh, Scotland. They had three children.