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Harriet Winslow Sewall Quotes

d. 1889 United States

Harriet Winslow Sewall (June 20, 1819 – April 19, 1889) was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child.

United States
19th-century poets
Poets

Also known as: Sewall, Harriet Winslow

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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?

Poor indeed must thou be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw—

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harriet Winslow Sewall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.