This website is dedicated to Ellen Bailey and
is a repository for her unedited and unpublished poems, odes,
and lyrics. Most of her writings are religious and inspirational
in nature but some are funny and humorous.
We hope you will find these poems inspiring
and entertaining. New entries are added periodically so check
back often for updates.
Ellen Bailey was born in Puritan Mines, West
Virginia, a small, close-knit community of hard-working coal
miners. The town is located at the southern tip of the state
amid the beautiful Appalachia Mountains. She has lived there
her whole life and has seldom ventured beyond her roots.
She wrote her first poem when she was in the third grade;
it was a poem about the country of Holland.
She has been a regular contributor to the Williamson Daily
News, a local newspapers, and a great many of her poems were
first published in its columns under the name of Matilda Ellen
Brown, her maiden name.
Ellen is a God-Fearing woman with a wonderful sense of humor.
Both of these traits are reflected in the type of poetry she
writes. She draws upon her life experiences and her belief in
the Bible for the inspiration for her poems.