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Marietta Holley was an American humorist who used satire to comment on US society and politics Her successful series of Samantha books feature the character of Samantha Allen a wise small-town woman or crackerbox philosopher who goes on adventures in urban America and Europe and her foolish husband Josiah Allen Holley was so skilled with satire and so popular that she was often compared to Mark Twain and Edgar Nye

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List of poems by Marietta Holley 14 total

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The Song Of The Siren
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The Unseen City
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The Fisher's Wife
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A Rich Man's Reverie.
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What Makes The Summer?
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A Dream Of Spring.
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A Song For Twilight.
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Autumn Song Of The Swallow.
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Autumn.
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Comfort.
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At Last.
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Autumn.
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A Woman's Heart.
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Aweary.
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