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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 25, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poet's Biography
First Line: You think that you love each as much as one
Last Line: How should you know who appraise love and divide?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: You think that you love each as much as one
Last Line: How should you know who appraise love and divide?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Mothers
You think that you love each as much as one,
Mothers with many nestlings 'neath your wings.
Nay, but you know not. Love's most priceless things
Have unity that cannot be undone.
You give the rays, I the englobed full sun;
I give the river, you the separate springs:
My motherhood's all my child's with all it brings--
None takes the strong entireness from her: none.
You know not. You love yours with various stress;
This with a graver trust, this with more pride;
This maybe with more needed tenderness:
I by each uttermost passion of my soul
Am turned to mine; she is one, she has the whole:
How should you know who appraise love and divide?
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