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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY DAUGHTER; ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poet's Biography First Line: Dear to my heart as life's warm stream Last Line: And cheer thee till we meet again! | |||
Dear to my heart as life's warm stream, Which animates this mortal clay, For thee I court the waking dream, And deck with smiles the future day; And thus beguile the present pain With hopes that we shall meet again. Yet will it be, as when the past Twin'd every joy and care and thought, And o'er our minds one mantle cast Of kind affections finely wrought? Ah, no! the groundless hope were vain, For so we ne'er can meet again! May he who claims thy tender heart Deserve its love, as I have done! For, kind and gentle as thou art, If so belov'd, thou'rt fairly won. Bright may the sacred torch remain, And cheer thee till we meet again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NORTH AMERICAN DEATH SONG by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER REMEMBRANCE by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER THE LOT OF THOUSANDS by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER THE OCEAN GRAVE by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER TO-MORROW by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER ODE ON THE SPRING by THOMAS GRAY PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747 by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) THE NYMPH COMPLAINING FOR THE DEATH OF HER FAUN [OR, FAWN] by ANDREW MARVELL |
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