Julia Ward Howe Thought Poems

  • 1.
    I never made a poem, dear friend-
    I never sat me down, and said,
    This cunning brain and patient hand
    Shall fashion something to be read.
    ...
  • 2.
    What is thy thought of me?
    What is thy feeling?
    Lov'st thou the veil of sense,
    Or its revealing?
    ...
  • 3.
    A gallant foeman in the fight,
    A brother when the fight was o'er,
    The hand that led the host with might
    The blessed torch of learning bore.
    ...
  • 4.
    Through the dim pageant of the years
    A wondrous tracery appears:
    A cabin of the western wild
    Shelters in sleep a new-born child.
    ...
Total 4 Thought Poems by Julia Ward Howe

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