Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... SONG. IMITATED FROM BERANGER. I Feel I ought to love thee more, For thou hast deigned to smile on one Whom twenty years have hobbled o'er Since first his twentieth summer shone. What then?--I have not now the heart, The springing heart--all youth--all glow,That could of old the charms impart, Beaming for me on Mary's brow! To grace thy course, the tutored steed, The gorgeous car, their aid prepare;--My Mary's step had equal speed, Light as the bird that cleaves the air. Around thy gilded halls, alas! A thousand mirrors light diffuse; Mary had only one;--but 'twas The very same the Graces use. Thy brilliant sallies yield thee still The applauding circle's wild delight;--Mary could boast no wit at will,--She scarce could read--she could not write. But then, whene'er her faltering tongue Her lack of learned lore betrayed; Love lent her eloquence--or hung His veil o'er every fault she made. No draperies hid her airy bed--No carpets hushed her footsteps fall--But still the blush of morning shed For her its earliest light o'er all. Her genius was not bright as thine, Not hers thy beauty, hers thy truth; But what can match the spell divine--The first impassioned dream of youth! SONNET TO MY MOTHER. BY EDOAR A. POE. Because the angels in the Heavens above, Devoutly singing unto one another, Can find, amid their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of " mother," Therefore by that sweet name I long have called you; You who are more than mother unto me, Filling my heart of hearts, where God installed you, In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother--my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the dead I loved so dearly, Are thus more precious than the one I knew, By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer t...
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