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Maria Brooks

  • Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth.

  • How can I no longer bear my weary doom? / Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?

  • Absent still? Ah, come and bless me! / Let these eyes again caress thee. / Once, in caution, I could fly thee: / Now I nothing could deny thee. / In a look if death there be, / Come, and I will gaze on thee!

  • Woe to thee, wild Ambition! I employ / Despair's low notes thy dread effects to tell ...

Maria Brooks, U.S. poet

(1794 - 1845)

Full name: Maria Gowen Brooks. She sometimes wrote as Maria del Occidente.