Poems

By Mary Baker Eddy

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 3, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664582386

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Mary Baker Eddy

Poems

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4057664582386

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PREFACE

POEMS

OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

CONSTANCY

MOTHER'S EVENING PRAYER

LOVE

I'M SITTING ALONE

THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN

CHRIST MY REFUGE

FEED MY SHEEP

THE VALLEY CEMETERY

UPWARD

THE OAK ON THE MOUNTAIN'S SUMMIT

WOMAN'S RIGHTS

THE NEW CENTURY

TO MY ABSENT BROTHER

SIGNS OF THE HEART

FLOWERS

TO THE OLD YEAR—1865

INVOCATION FOR 1868

CHRISTMAS MORN

EASTER MORN

RESOLUTIONS FOR THE DAY

O FOR THY WINGS, SWEET BIRD!

COME THOU

WISH AND ITEM

LINES

TO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN

HOPE

TO ETTA

NEVERMORE

MEETING OF MY DEPARTED MOTHER AND HUSBAND

ISLE OF WIGHT

SPRING

JUNE

RONDELET

AUTUMN

ALPHABET AND BAYONET

THE COUNTRY-SEAT

TO ELLEN. SING ME THAT SONG!

LINES, ON VISITING PINE GROVE CEMETERY

A VERSE

TRUTH

THE LIBERTY BELLS

MEMENTO

COMMUNION HYMN

LAUS DEO!

OUR NATIONAL THANKSGIVING HYMN

SATISFIED

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The poems garnered up in this little volume were written at different periods in the life of the author, dating from her early girlhood up to recent years. They were not written with a view of making a book, each poem being the spontaneous outpouring of a deeply poetic nature and called forth by some experience that claimed her attention.

The Old Man of the Mountain, for instance, was written while the author was contemplating this lofty New Hampshire crag, whose rugged outlines resemble the profile of a human face. Inspired by the grandeur of this masterpiece of nature's handiwork, and looking up through nature, unto nature's God, the poem began to take form in her thought, and alighting from her carriage, she seated herself by the roadside and began to write. Some tourists who were passing, and who made her acquaintance, asked her what she was writing, and she replied by reading the poem to them. They were so pleased with it that each requested a copy, which was subsequently mailed to them. Similar requests continued to reach the author for years afterward, until the poem finally found its way into print, appearing, together with The Valley Cemetery, in a book Gems for You, published in Manchester, N. H., in 1850, and again in Boston, in 1856.

The poem on the "Dedication of a