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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Marietta Holley
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Title: Poems
Author: Marietta Holley
Release Date: November 22, 2003 [EBook #10216]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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POEMS
by
"Josiah Allen's Wife,"
(Marietta Holley)
DEDICATION.
When I wrote many of these verses I was much younger than I am now, and the "sweetest eyes in the world" would brighten over them, through the reader's love for me. I dedicate them to her memory --the memory of
MY MOTHER.
Contents
WHAT MAKES THE SUMMER?
THE BROTHERS
A RICH MAN'S REVERIE
GLORIA THE TRUE
THE DEACON'S DAUGHTER
SONGS OF THE SWALLOW
THE COQUETTE
LITTLE NELL
THE FISHER'S WIFE
THE LAND OF LONG AGO
LEMOINE
SLEEP
THE LADY MAUD
THE HAUNTED CASTLE
THE STORY OF GLADYS
FAREWELL
THE KNIGHT OF NORMANDY
SOMETIME
MOTIVES
NIGHTFALL
HIS PLACE
A DREAM OF SP