Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again, just for to-night!Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (1832-1911) American author, journalist, poet [pseud. Florence Percy]
“Rock Me To Sleep, Mother,” ll. 1-2 (1859)
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Allen, Elizabeth Akers
Carve not upon a stone when I am dead,
The praises which remorseful mourners give
To women’s graves — a tardy recompense,
But speak them while I live.Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (1832-1911) American author, journalist, poet [pseud. Florence Percy]
“Until Death”
Published anonymously in William Cullen Bryant (ed.), A New Library of Poetry and Song (1876)