HIT: POEM Virginia Moore

[Sybil Finemel <sfinemel@mediaone.net>]

I had the answer to my request within  minutes.  Which was:  I am looking
for a poem by Virginia Moore 'Psyche'.This was a favorite of Eleanor
Roosevelt's and a reference was made to the poem in the book by Doris Kearn
Goodwin, 'No ordinary time'.


Here is the hit  for those who requested it.


http://www.veen.com/Calvary/sermons/sermonDisplay.asp?id=248.asp

          In Doris Kearns Goodwin's book about Eleanor and Franklin
Roosevelt, she notes that when Eleanor
     Roosevelt died in l962, a poem was found on her bedside table. It
was a poem by Virginia Moore. It was
     entitled "Psyche''. Next to the words of the poem, Eleanor
Roosevelt had written the date, l918. Evidently
     this poem helped her work out her hurt and forgiveness for her
husband.

          The soul that has believed
        And is deceived
        Thinks nothing for a while,
        All thoughts are vile.
             And then because the sun
        Is mute persuasion,
        And hope in Spring and Fall
        Most natural,
        The soul grows calm and mild,
        A little child,
        Find the pull of breath
        Better than death.
        The soul that had believed
        And was deceived
        Ends by believing more
        Than ever before.

Sybil Finemel
Library Director
Los Angeles CA
LII Indexer, http://lii.org/
KidsConnect Volunteer
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
sfinemel@mediaone.net

'No entertainment is so cheap as reading;nor any pleasure so lasting'
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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