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Why thus longing, thus forever sighing
For the far-off, unattained, and dim,
While the beautiful all round thee lying
Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?
Harriet Winslow Sewall
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Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw—
Harriet Winslow Sewall
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
Harriet Winslow Sewall
Born:
June 20, 1819
Died:
December 20, 1889
(aged 70)
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Harriet Winslow Sewall was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child.
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