"When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away."

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Source: Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.60

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Sarah Helen Whitman

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Sarah Helen Whitman was an American poet and essayist known for her poignant explorations of love and loss, particularly in her works about Edgar Allan Poe.

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