"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" was a wildly popular poem by Rose Hartwicke Thorpe first published in 1867 in the Detroit Commercial Advertiser. It was reprinted in newspapers and magazines throughout the country, as an illustrated pamphlet in 1882, and and in Thorpe's collection Ringing Ballads, Including Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight (1887). According to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) it was adapted twice into silent films, in 1912 and 1923.
The poem tells a romantic story about female heroism, and its ballad form would have been easily adapted to song. Both of these attributes may have contributed to its popularity.
Though Thorpe was known to be the author of the poem (in 1890 she published an article in the New York Times called "How it Came to be Written"), the newspaper Prudence clipped it from published it without attribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curfew_Must_Not_Ring_Tonight
The poem tells a romantic story about female heroism, and its ballad form would have been easily adapted to song. Both of these attributes may have contributed to its popularity.
Though Thorpe was known to be the author of the poem (in 1890 she published an article in the New York Times called "How it Came to be Written"), the newspaper Prudence clipped it from published it without attribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curfew_Must_Not_Ring_Tonight
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