[Rarebooks] FS: Bayard Taylor AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED of his Poem about a Marriage Proposal

[Charles Agvent]

TAYLOR, Bayard. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS). Sorrento, 10 March 
1868. On a 5" x 7-1/2" piece of paper Taylor has written his complete 
poem "Proposal" and dated and SIGNED it below. The poem was first 
published in the November 1859 issue of HARPER'S MONTHLY and is one of 
the best known by the Quaker poet.
The violet loves a sunny bank,
The cowslip loves the lea;
The scarlet creeper loves the elm,
But I love—thee.

The sunshine kisses mount and vale,
The stars, they kiss the sea;
The west winds kiss the clover bloom,
But I kiss—thee!

The oriole weds his mottled mate;
The lily's bride o' the bee;
Heaven's marriage-ring is round the earth—
Shall I wed thee?

Faint creases, light staining to verso. Fine.

  (#021016)        $750

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