Lucy Larcom - Works and Poems

Works and Poems

Her works in­clude:

  • An Idyll of Work, 1875
  • “Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Rem­i­nis­cence,” At­lantic Month­ly (No­vem­ber 1881)
  • A New Eng­land Girlhood, 1889

Her Poems included:

This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze

But is the echo of some voice beloved:

Its pines have human tones; its billows wear

The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.

Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands

That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful

Because of something lovelier than themselves,

Which breathes within them, and will never die. —

Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;

Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,

With dear companions now passed out of sight,

Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,

Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride

Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts

Will meet the offering, of so little worth,

Wanting the benison death has made divine.

Oh, her heart’s adrift with one

On an endless voyage gone!

Night and morning

Hannah’s at the window binding shoes.

List of more poems here.

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