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Clarine Coffin Grenfell

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Milkweed in Fall

Will God, Who hides inside each pod

Seeds for a hundred springs,

Neglect to send, when my fall comes,

The necessary wings?

Clarine Coffin Grenfell, from The Caress and the Hurt, 1982

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Grenfell Reading Center Publications

The Caress and the Hurt cover image

The Caress and the Hurt

Clarine Coffin Grenfell

Illustrator: Lornagrace Grenfell

1982

ISBN-13: 9780961276607

Women My Husband Married cover image

Women My Husband Married

Clarine Coffin Grenfell

Illustrator: Lornagrace Grenfell

1983

ISBN-13: 9780961276621

Roses in December cover image

Roses In December

Clarine Coffin Grenfell

Illustrator: Lornagrace Grenfell

1984

ISBN-13: 9780961276614

A Backward Look

Clarine Coffin Grenfell

1985

ISBN-13: 9780961276638

Sheep Island Chronicles: Growing Up in Downeast Maine

Ruby Kelley Dobbins

1997

ISBN-10: 0961276321

Long Ago and Far Away, 1936-1945

Edgar Thurlow Pitts

2000

ISBN-13: 978-0961276676

When I Open My Window: Reflections for the Living of These Days

Chandler W. Gilbert

2000

ISBN-13: 978-0961276683

A Fluttering of Wings

Hazel Andrews Morrison

1994

ISBN-13: 978-0961276645

Rekindle the Fire! Antidote to Burnout

John Peters Webster

1997

ISBN-13: 978-0961276669

Maine Memories

Luther Varney

1998

ISBN: 0961276325

Celebrate Life!

Richard J. Lambert

Illustrator: Lornagrace Grenfell

1996

ISBN: 0-961276-31-7

Looking Back from the Nineties

James R. Carter and Richard J. Lambert

1995

ISBN: 9780961276317

Set Out the Cups

When I get home, I thought, I’ll make the tea.
I’ll put the kettle on, set out the cups —
Yours white, mine blue — and then we’ll sit and talk
About the service . . .
                                    How the people sang
The ‘Alleluias’ in your favorite hymn!
How blue the heather was — almost as blue
As that you picked in Cornwall long ago
And tucked into my hair! And how our son,
So like you, made them laugh (Imagine that!)
With loving stories of his dad, and how
The gentle scent of roses followed us
As we filed out to stand among the stones . . .

When I get home, when I get home, I thought,
I’ll make the tea, we’ll sit for hours and chat.
I’ll put the kettle on, set out the cups —
Set out the cups . . .
                                 no, put the white one back.

Clarine Coffin Grenfell, from The Caress and the Hurt, 1982

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