WorkCharles Wolfe

“To Mary”

To Mary (date unknown, c. 1820s), Inferred

InferredAttributed 'Charles Wolfe' at the end of the stanza on p. 85 (following the Tiedge/Urania translation). These lines are from Charles Wolfe's poem 'To Mary.' Wolfe (1791–1823) was an Irish poet best known for 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna.' The poem 'To Mary' features the speaker mourning over the body of his beloved.

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Documented 1826

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1826—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

p. 85

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“If thou wouldst stay even as thou art, / All cold and all serene— / I still might press thy silent heart, / And where thy smiles have been.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Attributed 'Charles Wolfe' at the end of the stanza on p. 85 (following the Tiedge/Urania translation). These lines are from Charles Wolfe's poem '“To Mary”.' Wolfe (1791–1823) was an Irish poet best known for 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna.' The poem '“To Mary”' features the speaker mourning over the body of his beloved.

Attributed 'Charles Wolfe' at the end of the stanza on p. 85 (following the Tiedge/Urania translation).