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 375
t know if her love awoke The sweet, the grand, the gay. Before his words awoke it ; I marvel how we shall be clothed If she guessed at liis before he spoke, With fairer robes than they ; Or not until he spoke it. And almost long to sleep, and rise But howsoeer she made it known, And gain that… … POEMS OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. AMYS LOVE-LETTER. Turning some papers carelessly That were hid away in a deskunused, I came upon something yesterdayOer which I ponderecl and mused : A letter, faded now and dim, And stained in places, as if by tears ;And yet I had hardly thought of him Who traced its…