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Show 215 Dear Mary, how I miss thee, Thy kind and loving smile, Thy noble heart so pure, so fre From every earthly guile... --Sister Mary, p. 78 (her sister-wife) Oh, what can cause this wild unrest: These yearning, great desires Forever burning in the breast Like hidden unquenched fires!... -Aspirations, p. 106 No, the day was not forgotten, Nor my dear and old-time friend, Though no word nor loving token- Not one flower did I send... --Birthday Remembrance, p. 107 Oh, methinks in words afar, sweet sister-spirit, mine, We knew and loved each other with tenderness divine;... --My Sister-Spirit, p. 107 (to Lizzie) When the work of life's mission is ended, May it close with a Saturday night, when the children's stockings are mended,-- And no unfinished work meets my sight... With Saturday Night, p. 198 And when the time hath come That mind and strength is all but done, 0 Father, snap the palsied thread Of life, for then I am the same as dead... -Take Me Then, p. 199 I'm going home, I'm going home, I'm going home tomorrow! Then tomy heart no more will come This loneliness and sorrow... - Yearnings, p. 222 Oh, these hard working doctors, pity them well! Of their strenuous life it is well to tell! • • • At the time their service quite all outranks, Yet oft unrequited with even poor thanks! -The "Dear" Doctors, p. 222 |
