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To Frances S. Osgood

by Edgar Allan Poe

19th-Century American · Short · 8 lineslove

Thou wouldst be loved?--then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise. And love a simple duty.

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Public domain. Source: PoetryDB. Reproduced verbatim; see theanthology for the full collection.

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