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Frances S. Osgood autograph poem signed. The celebrated American poet and muse of Edgar Allen Poe writes in full: ''To Little Henry / Listening to poetry / Dear must be his country's praise, / To the bard, she crowns with bays; / Sweet the echo of his names, / From the Clarion voice of Fame; / Mine a tribute dearer still, / For a sweeter flattery flows, / From thy voice, that like a sill, / Music makes, where'er it goes. / Child of Genius in thine eyes, / I can see thy soul arise, / All the poetry of feeling. / In their changeful depths, revealing; And the verse that wins from their, / Earnest look, approval [?] / Playing on a lyre so fine, / As that guileless soul of thine, / waking from its softest sigh. / Melody in low reply. / Must have music in its flow, / Purer, truer than I know, / Gifted, with a grace divine, / By a Higher Power than mine! / Frances S. Osgood.'' The name Henry is written on a panel to verso. 1pp. on card-style stationery measures 5'' x 7.75''. Light soiling and creasing, else near fine.
Rare Frances S. Osgood Signed Poem Written in Her Own Hand -- ''...Playing on a lyre so fine, / As that guileless soul of thine, / waking from its softest sigh. / Melody in low reply...''
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