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Potential Titles: Mary Gardiner Horsford [aka Mrs. E.N. Horsford]

The mirror gave me back a form - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

That thrilled me with dismay - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

E'en Nature's smile a bitter mockery wore - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

And I alone was cursed and loathed - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I mused beneath the avalanche - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Became to me a passion and a dream - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I stood amid the forms of light - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

As well might I aspire to build a star - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Called from the depths of chaos form and might - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

The stars of night in circling systems moved - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

Calls the lightning from its throne on high - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

The sunbeam in its trackless flight - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

The archangel's voice in tones sublime - Miss Mary Gardiner "The Deity" (from The Knickerbocker, v.22:5, Nov. 1843)

Left its ruby throne on high - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"

From this low fraction of expiring time - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Lost Pleiad"

Sparkling foam and solemn murmurs - Mary Gardiner Horsford "My Native Isle"

The low night-wind had fled - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Pilgrims' Fast"

That fled with the monarch of light - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"

Sunshine that gleams from Eternity's shore - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"

In the shade of a fortress of snows - Mary Gardiner Horsford "Pleurs"

The brightest and best in the lists of fame - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Daring spirit and purpose high - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

The fires of hell rage fierce and warm - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

What victim comes those frowns to dare? - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Flings its radiance over life's changing way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Hope has found in her heart a tomb - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Whose light is faint as the moon in a cloudy night - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Nerved with the strength of wild despair - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

To roll the clouds of midnight from your hearts - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

A curse too bitter and wild for the broken heart - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Silent and swift as the flight of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

The star that shines in the midnight sky - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Had learned to wear the crown of sorrow - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Where the fountains of gladness start - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Fragrance shed on the desert air - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Raise the veil from the shores of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

The hollow moan of distant seas - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "Thermopylae"

Where thousands met to die - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "Thermopylae"

The cannon whose forge is the sun - Mary Gardiner Horsford "The Thunderbolt"

Flowers that spring from the same root below - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

And though our paths lie separate now - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

By the stern disciplines of grief - Mrs. Mary G. Horsford "To an Absent Sister" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]


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