(1825-1913 / the United States)

poet Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr

Poems of Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr

1. 9/4/2010
2. Hush! 9/4/2010
3. Mercedes 10/6/2012
4. Nocturne 10/6/2012
5. O Wind that Blows Out of the West 9/4/2010
6. Outgrown 9/4/2010
7. The Kiss 9/4/2010
8. The Legend of the Organ Builder 9/4/2010
9. To A Late Comer 9/4/2010
10. To a Late Comer 10/6/2012
11. To-morrow 9/4/2010
12. Two Paths 9/4/2010
13. With A Rose From Conway Castle 9/4/2010

Outgrown

Nay, you wrong her my friend, she's not fickle; her love she has simply outgrown:
One can read the whole matter, translating her heart by the light of one's own.

Can you bear me to talk with you frankly? There is much that my heart would say;
And you know we were children together, have quarrelled and 'made up' in play.

And so, for the sake of old friendship, I venture to tell you the truth,-
As plainly, perhaps, and as bluntly, as I might in our earlier youth.

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