: Atlanta offering: Poems by Harper Frances Ellen Watkins - African Americans Poetry

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ATLANTA OFFERING POEMS

BY FRANCES E. W. HARPER

PHILADELPHIA: 1006 BAINBRIDGE STREET 1895

Copyrighted, 1895, by

FRANCES E. W. HARPER.

GEORGE S. FERGUSON CO., PRINTERS AND ELECTROTYPERS.

MY MOTHER'S KISS.

My mother's kiss, my mother's kiss, I feel its impress now; As in the bright and happy days She pressed it on my brow.

You say it is a fancied thing Within my memory fraught; To me it has a sacred place-- The treasure house of thought.

Again, I feel her fingers glide Amid my clustering hair; I see the love-light in her eyes, When all my life was fair.

Again, I hear her gentle voice In warning or in love. How precious was the faith that taught My soul of things above.

The music of her voice is stilled, Her lips are paled in death. As precious pearls I'll clasp her words Until my latest breath.

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