Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Desires
By Elizabeth Clementine Kinney (1810–1889)[From Poems. 1867.]
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Take all these doubts away;
Oh! let the simple words “He saith”
Confirm my faith each day.
To conquer timid fear—
To cheer life’s path, as on I grope,
Till Heaven’s own light appear.
Such as on earth was Thine—
All graces and all gifts above,
Unselfish love be mine.