The poetical works of Alice and Phbe Cary : with a memorial of their lives (1881)
Cary, Alice, 1820-1871, Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 109
lip-ping From my fingers icy tips ;Be there not the touch of kisses On my uncaressing lips ;Let no kindness see the blindness Of my eyes last, long eclipse.Never think of me as lying By the dismal mould oerspread :But about the soft white pillow Folded underneath my head,And of summer flowers… … ALICE GARYS POEMS TO THE SPIRIT OF SONG. APOLOGY.[Prefacing the volume of Ballads, Lyrics, and Hynnns pttblished in 1865.] O EVER true and comfortable mate, Por whom my love outwore the fleeting redOf my young cheeks, nor did one jot abate, I pray thee now, as by a dying bed.Wait yet a little…