Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 · Boston, Houghton, Osgood and company · leaf 179
tender mother laidOn my shut lids, her kisses pressure,Half-wakiug me at night ; and said Who kissed you through the dark, dear guesser ? — Elizabeth Barrett Broioning. … LARV^. My little maiden of four years old, — Xo myth, but a genuine child is she.With her bronze-browu eyes, and her curls of gold, — Came, quite in disgust, one day, to me. Ruljbiug her shoulder with rosy palm, (As the loathsome touch seemed yet to thrill her,)She cried, — Oh, mother, I found on…
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