An Autumn Walk with Deborah

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An Autumn Walk with Deborah is a short poem about the season itself, autumn, with her daughter in the poem with her. The poem talks about a mother and daughter enjoying their walk through the grounds with fallen dry leaves. They took a handful of brown leaves and the mother makes a handmade crown out of those brown leaves and places it on her daughter’s princess like head. Her little daughter is described to be the queen of the elves. They had so much, until such time that they had to go home and the mother carried her tired daughter from their cheery game.

Aline Murray Kilmer was an American poet, children’s book writer, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer.

Aline studied at the Rutgers College Preparatory School with her husband, Alfred Joyce Kilmer and they married each other after his graduation from Columbia University. Their marriage lasted for only 10 years, her husband was best known as a poet, literary critic and described in the Catholic circles as America’s most prolific Catholic author. He died during the World War I and Aline started producing her own poetry and a few children’s books. Unfortunately, her books are not that recognized at this moment.

She was born as Aline Murray in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of Ada Foster Murray, a poet and Kenton C. Murray, editor of the Norfolk Landmark newspaper. Her mother remarried in Metuchen, New Jersey to Henry Mills Alden. Henry was the managing editor of Harper’s Magazine, and he was Aline’s stepfather.

Aline attended at the Rutgers College Grammar School which is now known as Rutgers Preparatory School in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the Vail-Deane School in Elizabeth, New Jersey the latter institution from which she finished her studies.

Some of her works include Candles That Burn, Vigils, The Poor Kings Daughter and Other Verse, Emmy, Nicky and Greg, A Buttonwood Summer, Selected Poems.
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