Explore "To Frances s. Osgood" by Edgar Allan Poe on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
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.