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the following year; it praises the sunset which bursts suddenly into the New York landscape, turning the common street and its denizens, "Each with his sordid burden trudging by," into "A golden highway into golden heaven, / With the dark shapes of men ascending still." Poetry collections
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In addition to poetry and fiction, she wrote literary criticism (her 1890 history of
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Cone, Helen Gray (May 28, 1911). "The Common Street".
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