And the soul which gives most freely from its treasures hath the more.
Would you lose life, you must find it,
And in giving love you bind it,
Like an amulet of safety to your heart for evermore.
Baltimore, August, 1872.
In a volume entitled Poems of the Inner Life written by the same lady, and published by Colby and Rich, of Boston, U.S.A., there is a long imitation of “Ulalume,” from which the following verses may be quoted:—
The Kingdom.
’Twas the ominous month of October—
How the memories rise in my soul!
How they swell like a sea in my soul!—