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Beulah Field
A little-known American poet whose surviving work glows with longing, reflection, and vivid natural imagery. Her lone widely documented collection, A Silver Pool, offers intimate lyric poems shaped by love, grief, faith, and the inner life.
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A silver pool
by Beulah Field
About the author
Beulah Field is an obscure early-20th-century American poet whose documented legacy rests largely on A Silver Pool, published in New York by Moffat, Yard and Company in 1922. Publicly available catalog and ebook records consistently identify that volume as her known book, and it is classified as American poetry of the period.
The poems in A Silver Pool suggest a writer drawn to musical language and emotionally charged images. Modern summaries of the collection describe recurring themes of love, loss, spiritual yearning, artistic calling, and resilience, with scenes and symbols from gardens, stars, fire, water, and travel woven through the book.
Very little reliable biographical information about Field herself appears to be readily available in major reference sources, so most introductions to her work have to stay close to the poems. That sense of mystery can be part of the appeal: readers meet her first through the voice on the page, where the writing feels inward, lyrical, and quietly intense.