Dear Mother! if thou must thy steps retrace,
Go where at least meek Innocency dwells;
Let Babes and Sucklings be thy oracles.
1846
The poems written in 1846 were six sonnets, the lines beginning, “I know an aged man constrained to dwell,” an “Evening Voluntary,” and other two short pieces.—Ed.
SONNET[301]
Composed 1846.—Published 1850
This was placed among the “Epitaphs and Elegiac Poems.”—Ed.