Category: Poetry
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Note: Images of the original pages are available through the project for Preservation and Access for American and British Children's Literature, 1850-1869, from an original sour...
2. Chapter 2No garland, fresh from Eden's bowers, Could be more sweet than these dear flowers To each surviving friend; They'll water them with falling tears, And nurse them through succeed...
3. Chapter 3Come home to New England, the land of thy birth, All nations still call her the queen of the earth. Oh! come with thy partner and sweet rosy child, Where friends in life's morni...
4. Chapter 4I've ranged the bright streamlet in childhood's blest hour, And culled from its borders spring's loveliest flowers, Then bound up my bouquet, all glitt'ring with dew, And smiled...
5. Chapter 5Where can we find a more transparent medium through which we may "look through nature up to nature's God," than a veil interwoven with flowers? When fatigued in body, where can...