"The world was sad!- the garden was a wild! BOSTON: GEORGE COOLIDGE, 13 TREMONT ROW. 1861. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, BY GEORGE COOLIDGE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Electrotyped at the BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. Damrell & Moore, Printers, Boston. POEMS OF WOMANHOOD. A WOMAN'S QUESTION. BEFORE I trust my fate to thee, I break all slighter bonds, nor feel Is there one link within the past Or is thy faith as clear and free As that which I can pledge to thee? Does there within thy dimmest dreams Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe, If so, at any pain or cost, O, tell me before all is lost. (3) Look deeper still. If thou canst feel That thou hast kept a portion back, Is there within thy heart a need Speak now-lest at some future day Lives there within thy nature hid On all things new and strange? It may not be thy fault alone But shield my heart against thy own. Couldst thou withdraw thy hand one day And answer to my claim, That Fate, and that to-day's mistake- Some soothe their conscience thus; but thou- Nay, answer not I dare not hear The words would come too late; Whatever on my heart may fall- Miss Procter. FAITHFUL FOREVER. HAVE I not told thee that my heart shall be Faithful forever unto love and thee? This promise was not idly spoken: It hath a meaning, and the angels know That let the crown of life be joy or woe, It never shall be broken! Faithful forever By every sanctified and pure emotion, That falls when sacred promises are broken, That my unwavering heart shall be Faithful forever! |