BRYANT WILLIAM CULLEN Autograph Poem Signed

Sale 1985 - Lot 255

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BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Autograph Poem Signed, titled "A Poet to his Wife." Eight 4-line stanzas beginning "The morn hath not the glory that it wore / Nor doth the day so beautifully die, / Since I can call thee to my side no more, / To gaze upon the sky." Signed vertically in the top left corner. 1 page, single tall 4to sheet, ruled paper; usual folds, minor toning. Roslyn, 1873

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Published in the March 1883 Century with the following introduction: "The reader of Mr. Bryant's poems will readily remember the many verses addressed to his wife . . . We learn from Mr. Godwin's forthcoming biography of the poet, a fragment was found among his papers, which recalls her memory in a very tender way, seven years after her death. The lines were unfinished and uncorrected; but we cannot refrain from giving them as they were written - dated 'Roslyn, 1873'." This appears to be the same copy, with an unfinished final line, "Oh, when I."