The Flowery Pagoda
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PREMONITION. We shall know grief, as we have known delight, Is not the day succeeded by the night ? We shall know pain and solitude, hereafter, For only tears, can pay for such sweet laughter.
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Poems of an American in China in the early 20th century; looking at the mystery of the east from the perspective of the westerner, immersed in its mysterious paradox. And then the poems of love and affection engendered from early marriage, as much a reflection of its ardor and continuing influences on her life. Evocative and yet sensible, too
About the Author
Maud Alice Hubbard Brown was born in Kansas City, Mo in 1888, and died in Temple City, CA in 1970, "The Flowery Pagoda" is a collection of her poetry, originally printed in Shanghai, China in 1930. She graduated from Park College, Parkville, Mo in the class of 1913. magna cum laude. Literature and writing was her "thing", and these poems summarize her China experiences, and evokes her early love for her husband, John Warner Brown, who also graduated from Park College in 1913. This is a reprint of the 1930 book, which was privately printed, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their college graduation in 1913. The new edition includes a biography added for this printing