Died at Hartford, July, 1861.
Faithful and true in duty's sacred sphere,
How like the summer-lightning hath she fled!
One moment bending o'er the letter'd page,--
The next reposing with the silent dead.
No more by shaded lamp, or garden fair;--
Yet hath she left a living transcript here,
Yon helpless orphans will remember her,[1]
And the young invalid she skilled to cheer;
And he who trusted in her from his birth,
As to a Mother's love,--and friends who saw
Her goodness seeking no applause from earth,
But ever steadfast to its heavenly law:
For she, like her of old, with listening ear
Sate at the Saviour's feet and won His plaudit dear.
(C) Lydia Howard Sigourney
03/10/2020
Best Poems of Lydia Howard Sigourney
- In Memoriam. - Mr. Normand Burr,
- In Memoriam. - Miss. Emily B. Parish,
- In Memoriam. - Madam Hannah Lathrop,
- In Memoriam. - Miss Frances Wyman Tracy,
- In Memoriam. - Harriet Allen Ely,
- In Memoriam. - Miss Jane Penelope Whiting,
- In Memoriam. - Hon. Thomas S. Williams,
- In Memoriam. - Madam Williams,
- In Memoriam. - Mrs. Georgiana Ives Comstock,
- In Memoriam. - Colonel Samuel Colt,
- In Memoriam. - Mr. John A. Taintor,
- In Memoriam. - Henry Howard Comstock,
- In Memoriam. - Miss Caroline L. Griffin,
- In Memoriam. - Mr. David F. Robinson,
- In Memoriam. - Miss Margaret C. Brown,
- In Memoriam. - Mrs. Elizabeth Harris,
- In Memoriam. - Annie Seymour Robinson,
- In Memoriam. - Mr. George Beach,
- In Memoriam. - Mrs. Mary Mildenstein Robertson,
- In Memoriam. - Mrs. Payne,
- In Memoriam. - Mrs. Frederick Tyler,