| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8402 |
| QUOTATION: | Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emily Brontė (1818–1848), British poet, novelist. Remembrance (l. 13–16). . .
Attributed to “Ellis Bell” (pseud.) The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontė. C. W. Hatfield, ed. (1941) Columbia University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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