"Number the riches by thy memory hoarded, Relics of joys thy by-past years have known, — How many real things has life afforded? How much true light was o'er thy pathway thrown?"

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Children's authors19th-century poets from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 19th centuryPoets from New York City
Original Language: English

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Illusions", st. 1, in E. Oakes Smith (ed.) The Mayflower: for MDCCCXLVII (Boston: Saxton & Kelt, 1847) p. 76. Third line altered in The Poet's Offering: for 1850, p. 346: "How many real things are there recorded?" The poem's epigraph is from Burke: "Shadows we are, and shadows we pursue.