“Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.”
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" To Frances S. Osgood http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/595/" (1845). <br class="br">Context: Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart<br>From its present pathway part not!<br>Being everything which now thou art,<br>Be nothing which thou art not.<br>So with the world thy gentle ways,<br>Thy grace, thy more than beauty,<br>Shall be an endless theme of praise,<br>And love — a simple duty.