WorkJames Freeman Clarke

“Niagara. The Bridge by Moonlight" [unpublished manuscript poem, Fuller saw it 'in print' — possibly a broadside or periodical version]”

InferredFuller quotes two lines from Clarke's "Niagara.

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1835Niagara. The Bridge by Moonlight. To Ellen SturgisDemonstrated
“thus goes the old / Or if it stays, its flower and freshness gone Fetters the limb weighs down the heart like stone”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835
Several consecutive lines of Clarke's poem quoted verbatim, a sustained excerpt rather than a phrase.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“by which I was reminded of some lines of yours which I saw lately not where I should have seen them first!”

Fuller, Margaret. "To James F. Clarke, 1 February 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 219–222. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller quotes two lines from Clarke's "Niagara.

To Ellen Sturgis, August 1834," saying the lines have "quite obliterated the impression your yawning account of Niagara made upon me last summer." Though Hudspeth notes the poem was never published (existing only in manuscript copies), Fuller says she saw it "in print,"which may refer to a written manuscript copy she encountered.