Ella Stevens Harris

Ella Stevens Harris is known for Brown leaves and other verses, a poetry collection published in 1912 in Montclair by Oswald Press. In the book’s prefatory note, she explains that many of the poems had appeared earlier in newspapers and periodicals before being gathered into this volume at the request of friends.

Her work is rooted in lyric poetry and returns often to nature, the changing seasons, affection, loss, prayer, and remembrance. Titles in the collection such as Brown Leaves, Nature’s Influence, A Call To Spring, and Trees show her fondness for reflective poems that connect inner feeling with the natural world.

Reliable biographical detail about her life is scarce in the sources I could confirm during this search, so it seems she remains better documented through her writing than through surviving public profiles. What does come through clearly is a warm, thoughtful poetic voice and a book that was privately printed in a very small edition before later becoming available in digital public-domain archives.