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Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835 – 1921)


Notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories.
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He is one of those people to whom you must allow moods,—when their sun shines, dance,—and when their vapors rise, sit in the shadow.
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Beauty vanishes like a vapor,
Preach the men of musty morals.
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The awful phantom of the hungry poor.




A place of dream, the Holy Land
Hangs midway between earth and heaven.
Ah, happy world, where all things live
Creatures of one great law, indeed;
Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower,—
Swept by great seas, the drifting seed!
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