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 240
er dreams. In vain among their clouds of greenThe wild birds sing — she says withtearsTheir sweet tongues stammer in thetunesThey sang so well in other years. Her home in ruins lies, and thornsChoke with their briery arms, thedoor ; What matter, says she, since that loveWill cross the threshold,…