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Title: The poetical works of Alice and Phoebe Cary; with a memorial of their lives by Mary Clemmer
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871 Clemmer, Mary, 1839-1884
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Publisher: New York, Hurd and Houghton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the Heart 393 Poems of Grief and Consolation. Earth to Earth 394 The Unhonored 394 Jennie 395 Cowpers Consolation 396 Twice smitten 396 Border-land 397 The Last Bed 397 Light 397 Waiting the Change 398, Personal Poems. Ready 399 Dickens 399 Thaddeus Stevens 400 John Greenleaf Whittier 400 The Hero of Fort Wagner .... 401 Garibaldi in Piedmont 401 John Brown 403 Otway 403 Our Good President 404 Poems for Children. To the Children 405 Griselda Goose 405 The Robins Nest 410 Rain and Sunshine 412 Babys Ring 412 Dont give up 412 The Good Little Sister 413 Now . 414 The Chickens Mistake 414 Effies Reasons 414 Feathers 415 The Prairie on Fire 416- Dappledun 417 Suppose 417 A Legend of the Northland . . .417 Easy Lessons 418 Obedience 4I9 The Crows Children 420 Hives and Homes 42 Noras Charm 421 They didnt think 422 Ajax 423 Keep a stiff upper lip .... 423 What the Frogs sing 423 The Hunchback 425 The Envious Wren 425 The Happy Little Wife 42& A MEMORIAL OF Alice and Phcebe Cary.
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A MEMORIAL OF ALICE AND PHCEBE CARY. CHAPTER I. THE HOUSE OF THEIR BIRTH. — THEIRFATHER AND MOTHER. — ANCESTRY,CHILDHOOD, AND EARLY YOUTH. In a brown house, low and small,on a farm in the Miami Valley, eightmiles north of Cincinnati, Ohio, AliceCary was born on the 26th day of April,1820. In the same house, September 4,1824, was born her sister and life-longcompanion, Phoebe. This house appeared and reappearedin the verse of both sisters, till theirlast lines were written. Their affectionfor it was a deep and life-long emotion.Each sister, within the blinds of a cityhouse, used to shut her eyes and listentill she thought she heard the rustle ofthe cherry-tree on the old roof, andsmelled again the sweet-brier under thewindow. You will realize how per-fectly it was daguerreotyped on Phoe-bes heart when you follow two of themany pictures which she has left of it.Phoebe says: The house was small,unpainted, without the slightest preten-sions to architectural beauty. It wasone story and

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