River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-22
Colorado PoGtess.

Denver News: Miss Jessie A Cole Is
Colorado girl. Size has written a vol
ume of poetry which is purely Colo
radon. Boundless expanse, lofty noun
tains, beetling crags, dark canyons.
rushing cataracts, filtered sunshine.
waving grass and sturdy. honest West
ern flowers, with here and there a
glimpse of cactus abound Miss Coles
is a modest volume Of 291 pages, Goa
tanning poems on Colorado, miscellane-
Gus poems, theatrical poems, domestic
and other poems and additional pieces.
Miss Coles portrait adorns the fronts
piece. The first poem in the book,
Colorado, is replete with gems OF
thought. Here is 4 gem:
Colorado has poured into the worlds cur
rency
OverslO0, eco, 900 il silver and gold.
Its mines embrace lead, copper and gold
And heaven only knows what they vet hold.
Too, besides it being a land of health,
And besides ali its mineral wealth.
Colorado holds ont promising reward for
The farmer and stock grower.
The description of Denver is con-
tanned in a poem of 100 lines, in four
line stanzas and is rs clear-cut as a
cameo. The following Stanza viii give
one an idea of the cameo:
Denver's inhabitants are 10000 up to date
The largest, thriftiest city of Colorado,
And the capital of the state
And the county seat of Arapahoe.
Miss Coles forte is perhaps. deserip-
ton, though she eXcels in ali kinds of
writing. In her descriptive poetry the
reader is carried along as on a tide of
eloquence. The words fairly hiss The
burning OF the NewhaIl hotel at Mil
waukee furnished her a theme on
which she has constructed a poem full
fiery patches of genius, with a soft sub
dued background of gray pathos. a
portion of the poem is given:
An appalling horror at Milwaukee oc-
CURED,
January 10th, at A. Ma great alarm
was heard
A fired broke out in the Newhall house,
While the Sleeping city was as still as a
mouse.
A hotel Of mamoth size, occupying one
block,
Was laid in ruin about O'Clock,
he hotel with guests was filed,
some escaped death, but hundreds were
killed.
Some jumped out to escape the fire,
But as soon as ere they reached the ground
did expire.
The proprietor of the house, John $. Ants
del
Who had escaped to the street from the
burning hotel,
Added to the excitement by running to and
fro
In the lighted area, shrieking, "Oh, oh,
NY God, Ny God, who set this on fire -
A piercing shrek Another humans q fallen
to expire.
She winds up the poem with the fol-
lowing couplet;
Severalsnoted persons persisted in this hor
rifying fire,
And many less known did also then expire.
Miss Cole is keenly alive TO every
species of emotion, but sings very little
Of love. She has a delicate fancy and
an ardent Imagination, faculties which
strong feelings always accompany, but
she has seen fit to allow her muse to
crop heritage more nourishing if less
luxuriant. She sorrows but little but
sorrows deeply when she does sorrow
In the poem entitled Broken Life,
she describes the feelings Of a Young
girl who has been Tilted. She says:
He told me that he loved me,
That with me he'd never part,
All at once he changed his mind,
And tramples on my very heart
If / should live a thousand years
of course none of us can
I'd never forget those broken vows,
Nor love another man.
This has perhaps never been equaled
except by the Kentucky poet who
wrote:
My heart is athrob with pulsing unrest
And fever is over my breath,
Oh, bury my head in the SHOWS of your
breast
And let me be frozen to death.