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To My Mother | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Because I feel that in the heavens above the angels
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  Speaker 1: whispering to one another can find among their burning terms
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  Speaker 1: of love none so devotional as that of Mother. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: by that dear name I long have called you, you,
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  Speaker 1: who are more than mother unto me, and fill my
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  Speaker 1: heart of hearts where death installed you in setting my
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  Speaker 1: Virginia's spirit free. My mother, my own mother, who died early,
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  Speaker 1: was but the mother of myself. But you are mother
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  Speaker 1: to the one I loved so dearly, and thus are
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  Speaker 1: dearer than the mother I knew by that infinity with
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  Speaker 1: which my wife was dearer to my soul than its
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  Speaker 1: soul life. No. The above was addressed to the poet's
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  Speaker 1: mother in law, missus Clem