A Simple Duty

Thou wouldst be loved?-then let thy heart

From its present pathway part not!

Ruth and Boaz
(1855)
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti
(1828-1882)
English artist

Being everything which now thou art,

Be nothing which thou art not.

So with the world thy gentle ways,

Thy grace, thy more than beauty,

Shall be an endless theme of praise,

And love-a simple duty.

"A Simple Duty"

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809-1849)

American writer and poet