Richard Watson Gilder
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Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909) was an American poet and editor.
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- Not from the whole wide world I chose thee,
Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea!
The wide, wide world could not inclose thee,
For thou art the whole wide world to me.- Song (1894).
- Through love to light! Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness to the perfect day!- After-song (1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- I am a woman—therefore I may not
Call to him, cry to him,
Fly to him,
Bid him delay not.- A Woman's Thought, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- O white and midnight sky, O starry bath,
Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood:
Cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath—
Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!- The Celestial Passion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
