[Poems by Pinkney in] The life and works of Edward Coote Pinkney a memoir and complete text of his poems and literary prose, including much never before published |
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[Poems by Pinkney in] The life and works of Edward Coote Pinkney | ||
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[SELF-ESTEEM]
I know that perfect self esteemIs boyhood's most seductive dream:
Like others, when my course began,
I revelled in it,—but the man
To whom experience betrays
The sordor of life's miry ways,
Feels that the hope is—Oh! how vain,
To tread them through without a stain.
[Poems by Pinkney in] The life and works of Edward Coote Pinkney | ||