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which had most influenced her. Another was Gibbon's “Decline and fall of the Roman Empire,” which she read at seventeen.1
She began at an early age to write verse.
A manuscript volume has been preserved in which some of these early poems were copied for her father.
The title-page and dedication are here reproduced: “Poems
Dedicated to
Samuel Ward esq
By His
affectionate daughter
Julia Ward.
Let me be thine
Regard not with a critic's eye.
New York 1831.”
The titles show the trend of the child's thought: “All things shall pass away” ; “We return no more” ; “Invitation ”
Dedicated to
Samuel Ward esq
By His
affectionate daughter
Julia Ward.
Let me be thine
Regard not with a critic's eye.
New York 1831.”
The titles show the trend of the child's thought: “All things shall pass away” ; “We return no more” ; “Invitation ”
1 In later life she added to these the works of Spinoza, and of Theodore Parker.
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