The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
"POETESS OF THE Pines
Kathleen Monica Nicholson Is
Visiting Friends in Town.
YOUNG LADY OF ABILITY
Although Only "a Years Old She Has AL
ready Achieved Success in Liter
ature-Some of Her Cred
liable Productions.

man who recently made a notable stir
in the literary world and whom the
Eastern newspapers and magazine have
named the "Poetess of the Pines" She
is Kathleen Monica Nicholson, a ma
tive of Wisconsin. She is making a
trip through the West for pleasure and
recreation, and having friends in
Butte, stopped here to visit them Miss
Nicholson, who is but "a years of age,
is as handsome as her verses indicate
she is talented. She has but fairly en-
tered upon the literary career which
promises to make her famous. Her first
published work, which made its APP
pearance only a few months ago, is en-
titled Whispers of the Pines and has
been received with much favor by lit
erary writer's who have recognized in
it the product of gifted and poetic
mind.
Miss Nicholson was born in Fond du
Lac July "a, 1875, but since the age of
three she has lived mostly in Northern
Michigan and the mining regions of
Wisconsin, where she has had ample
opportunity to know and appreciate the
wild native beauty of nature the in
f1uence of which environment is fire.
quently discernible in her verses At
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in Northern Wisconsin and later en-
tered st. Mary's academy at Notre
Dame, Ind. but before completing her
studies accepted an appointment from
Governor Peck as county superintend-
ent of Iron county. At the conclusion
of her term she resumed teaching her
last school work being done at Hurley,
Wis, her present home. Miss Nichol-
sons life has been an exceedingly busy
one. AT present she is combining the
study of law with her literary work
and is preparing matter for a series of
lectures. One of her lectures, The
Twentieth Century Woman" is said to
be an especially interesting one and it
is possible that she may be induced to
deliver it before one of the women's
clubs in Butte during her stay here.
Some of Miss Nicholson's verses,
which have been most favorably re-
ceived, were written when the poetess
was but Is years of age Whispers of
the Pines" is a collection of the best of
her productions, though many of the
poems were written with no thought at
the time of their future publication.
The volume contains about so poems,
many of them displaying the gift of a
poetical genius. Especially pleasing are
the poems, Star of Hope" "Renounce-
ment," Two Voices" Affinity" and
her Songs of Innisfail." An example
verses is contained in the following
stanzas, from the second poem in her
book entitled Songs
Floats song in the breath of spring
That stirs each rlifeless limb,
When a thrill of the summers wing
Comes at the great suns whim.
Each fibre and nerve of earth ar.
Burstsiforth in living song,
And fow'r and leaflets birth
The lofty strains .prolong.
There's song in ev'ry flow'r
That lifts its fair, pure face,
Thro' each dark or sunny hour
To sun the sun-god's grace.
"A dream in ev'ry sigh
That stirs the sombre grave,
When deep minds floating by
Low whisper words of love.
"A thought in eV'ry CLINT
OF gold or pale starlight.
From far worlds hither sent
To picture to our sight"
A more ambitious effort Is Miss Mich
olsons THE New Elaine" a romantic
tale in blank verse, while her Songs
of Innisfair' are specially pleasing to
many who find particular interest in
the stories of old Ireland.