SD311. Edward Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Mary Moulton-Barrett
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 321 (in part).
[Hope End]
[1 May 1819] [1]
To dearest Mama
on her birthday
1
Ye Muses nine
Your powers combine
And lend your aid in every line
To greet a mothers birth
2
And then sweet Thalia blythesome Muse
Within me all thy fire infuse
Nor thou thy aid refuse
But fill our souls with mirth
3
But as Erato will not stay
I myself must haste away
Unto the pleasures of the day
<And> all the joys that frequent earth.
Edward Barrett
Address, on integral page: Mrs Barrett / Hope End.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Berg Collection.
1. Dated by copy in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand in “Poems by EBB,” ms in Berg Collection.
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