Here blooms the legend, fed by Time and Chance, Fresh as the morning, though with centuries old, The whitest lily on the shield of France, With heart of virgin gold.…
Maria White Lowell, born on July 8, 1821, in Watertown, Massachusetts, was an American poet, an ardent abolitionist, and a women’s rights activist. She died on October 27, 1853. In the months following her death, her husband James Russell Lowell prepared for the publication of The Poems of Maria Lowell (The Riverside Press, 1855). Mrs. Lowell would come to influence poets such as Emily Dickinson and Amy Lowell.
Maria White Lowell şiirleri
When on my ear your loss was knelled, And tender sympathy upburst, A little spring from memory welled, Which once had quenched my bitter thirst.…