Love Letters
Dear Letters, Fond Letters,
Must I with you part?
You are such a source of joy
To my lonely heart.
Sweet Letters, Dear Letters,
What a tell you tell;
O, no power on earth can break
This strange mystic spell!
Dear Letters, Fond Letters,
You my secret know—
Don’t you tell it, any one—
Let it live and grow.
Source: She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (University of Iowa Press, 1997)