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Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage

A little-known American poet from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she is remembered for warm, lyrical verse gathered in Petunia Blossoms. Her poems dwell on home, nature, memory, and feeling in a direct, old-fashioned style.

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Petunia blossoms: Ballads and poems

Petunia blossoms: Ballads and poems

by Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage

About the author

Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage was an American poet whose work survives mainly through her 1921 collection Petunia Blossoms. The book was published in Kansas City, Missouri, and presented as a volume of ballads and poems.

Available library and archive records identify her dates as 1858 to 1939. In Petunia Blossoms, she dedicated the book to her husband, William F. Schrage, and wrote in a gentle, sentimental voice that reflects everyday affection, domestic life, and the beauty of the natural world.

Although she is not widely known today, her poetry remains of interest to readers who enjoy rediscovered writers and intimate verse from the early 20th century. Her work offers a small but appealing glimpse of a poet writing from personal feeling rather than literary fashion.