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American

Sarah Helen Whitman

1803–1878

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) was a poet and critic of Providence, Rhode Island, author of Hours of Life, and Other Poems (1853). She was briefly engaged to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848.

Edmund Clarence Stedman printed four of her sonnets in An American Anthology (1900); they are untitled and are given here by their first lines.

Poems (5)

  1. When first I looked into thy glorious eyes,
  2. Oft since thine earthly eyes have closed on mine,
  3. On our lone pathway bloomed no earthly hopes:
  4. If thy sad heart, pining for human love,
  5. A Still Day in Autumn

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