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Original publication date: 1887
Dedication: TO MY DEAR MOTHER.

Thou smilest that my childhood's dreaming thought
So blent thee with the beauty of God's world
That those deep morning lilies dew-impearled,
And jonquils clear with vernal wildness fra... (show all)ught
(In the old lost garden where thy hand had wrought),
And dove-plumes of an evening cloud soft curled,
And star-sheen to the bland night wind unfurled,
Some touch of thy fair tenderness had caught.
Later the world of all things excellent,
As once of lovely, moved round thee; and still
Whene'er I hear the praise of Truth, Good-Will,
High Hope, and Courage by no tempest bent,
I can but think these names for thee were meant,
And thou art Love, else hath my heart no skill!
First words: Oh, not by sight or sound alone, I guess
This way her light feet press,—
Light feet of Spring!

Genre: Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 811.4 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 1861-1899
LCC: PS3027 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 19th century