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[Poems by Osgood in] The poetry of flowers and Flowers of Poetry

Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke (1811-1850)

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To Beauty, Friendship, and Love
 
ASSIGNATION.
 
ASYLUM—PROTECTION.
 
BEAUTY COMBINED WITH PIETY.
 
BONDS OF LOVE.
 
BEAUTY.
 
BEAUTY EVER NEW.
 
CHASTITY.
 
CONSOLATION.
 
CONSTANCY.
 
COME DOWN TO ME.
 
CRUELTY.
 
DELICACY.
 
Your amiability, and the excellence of your character, have compelled me to declare my love.
 
DECLARATION OF LOVE.
 
DECEITFUL CHARMS.
 
DISDAIN.
 
DISGUISE.
 
DISGUISE.
 
DO ME JUSTICE.
 
DURABILITY.
 
ELEGANCE.
 
ELEGANCE.
 
ENCHANTMENT.
 
ENTERTAINMENT—FEASTING.
 
FAREWELL.
 
FALSEHOOD
 
FANCY'S FIRE.
 
FASCINATION.
 
FLAME.
 
FLATTERY.
 
FLATTERY.
 
FLATTERY'S SMILE.
 
FLY WITH ME.
 
FOLLOW ME.
 
FOLLY.
 
Forget me not, for, alas! we may never meet again.
 
FORGET-ME-NOT.
 
FRIENDSHIP.
 
GENEROSITY.
 
GRACES.
 
GRACES.
 
HAVE I CAUGHT YOU AT LAST?
 
HEARTLESS BEAUTY.
 
HYPOCRISY.
 
HOW CAME YOU HERE?
 
I DIE IF NEGLECTED.
 
In preference, I attach myself to you, but shall die if neglected.
 
I WILL ENLIGHTEN YOU.
 
I TRUST IN THEE.
 
IMAGINATION.
 
I WILL NOT TROUBLE YOU.
 
I WILL THINK OF IT.
 
Be not impatient, I will think of it.
 
IMMORTALITY.
 
INDIFFERENCE.
 
INDISCRETION.
 
IRONY.
 
JUSTICE SHALL BE DONE YOU.
 
LET ME GO!
 
Love is the poetry of life.
 
LOVE IN A SNOW-WREATH.
 
LUXURY.
 
MAJESTY.
 
MELANCHOLY.
 
MELANCHOLY SPIRIT.
 
MESSAGE.
 
I send you a message of love on the wings of hope
 
MODESTY.
 
MODESTY.
 
MIRTH.
 
ORNAMENT.
 
PEACE.
 
PREFERENCE.
 
Your modesty and innocence secure you the preference.
 
PREFERENCE.
 
PRESAGE.
 
PRETENSION.
 
PROHIBITION.
 
PEERLESS AND PROUD.
 
RESERVE.
 
RESOLVE THE RIDDLE.
 
You have the power to restore me to happiness.
 
RICHES.
 
SADNESS.
 
SECRET LOVE.
 
SOUL OF MY SOUL.
 
SILENCE.
 
SIMPLICITY.
 
SHARPNESS.
 
SLEEP OF THE HEART.
 
My heart would be at ease, if my solitude were blest with your society.
 
SPLENDOUR.
 
STRENGTH.
 
SUSPICION.
 
THE HEART THAT KNOWS NOT LOVE.
 
TIME.
 
TIMIDITY.
 
THANKFULNESS.
 
THINK OF ME.
 
TREACHERY.
 
TRUTH.
 
UTILITY.
 
VARIETY.
 
VIRGIN PRIDE.
 
WILL YOU PLEDGE ME?
 
WIN ME AND WEAR ME.
 
YOUR BLUSH HAS WON ME.
 
YOUR IMAGE IS ENGRAVEN ON MY HEART.
 
YOU PUZZLE ME.
 
YOUR QUALITIES SURPASS YOUR CHARMS.
 
YOUR FROWN I DEFY.
 
FLOWERS.

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DISGUISE.

COMMON STRAMONIUM.

Though dark the heart that throbs beneath
The cestus in despair;—
What matters it?—the jewel-wreath
Can hide the ruin there!
And oh! though still my diamonds blaze
Above a spirit lonely,
The world—the heartless world—will gaze,
And see my jewels only!
Yes! I would have them deem me blest;
And wealth, at least, may be
A glittering veil for broken rest
And endless misery!
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