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"American Female Poets [an electronic edition]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE7433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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A CONFESSION.
THEY are not tears of sorrowing,Then, dearest, chide me not!I weep with very thankfulness,For this, my blessed lot.
I think me of the rose-hued past,And tears will fall like rain;I turn me to my present bliss,And forth they gush again.
The past, the sunny past was likeA glorious dream to me,The earth was as a fairy land,And fairy creatures we.
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The hours went by as angels wouldWhen forced from heaven to roam;Each gave a blessing as it past,And hasten'd to its home.
The memories of those vanish'd hoursThrong round me like a spell,And charm these drops of tendernessUp from their secret cell.
Yet, love, I would not barter nowThe luxury of these tears,For all the joys that woo my thoughtsBack to those by-gone years!
For though my heart, blithe as a bird,From flower to flower would rove,It had not known thy tenderness,It had not felt thy love!
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