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ADAMS, John Quincy. Autograph verses signed ("John Quincy Adams") a "Sonnet to Miss Margaret L. Gamble, In remembrance of an excursion in company with her and a numerous party to Harper's Ferry, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - May 1834."
1 full page, small 4to, neatly inscribed in ink on a sheet of paper with a delicate engraved vignette at top (a fountain in a landscape, with a dog reclining at the base), a few traces of light foxing.
An excellent--albeit somewhat melancholy--example of Adams's accomplished amateur verses. In his 14-line sonnet, which perhaps was originally part of an album, the older poet asks to be remembered, in future, by the young woman: "Lady! The remnant of my days is small-- And many a joyous year, in prospect thine." It concludes with his plea: "Remember one, the senior of thy line, Who in the opening blossom of the Spring, Saw that, in thee, to love and to admire; Tho which, his soul, in brighter worlds shall cling-- And when, on Seraph's pinions thou shalt rise, Shall hail Thee, welcome to thy kindred skies."
1 full page, small 4to, neatly inscribed in ink on a sheet of paper with a delicate engraved vignette at top (a fountain in a landscape, with a dog reclining at the base), a few traces of light foxing.
An excellent--albeit somewhat melancholy--example of Adams's accomplished amateur verses. In his 14-line sonnet, which perhaps was originally part of an album, the older poet asks to be remembered, in future, by the young woman: "Lady! The remnant of my days is small-- And many a joyous year, in prospect thine." It concludes with his plea: "Remember one, the senior of thy line, Who in the opening blossom of the Spring, Saw that, in thee, to love and to admire; Tho which, his soul, in brighter worlds shall cling-- And when, on Seraph's pinions thou shalt rise, Shall hail Thee, welcome to thy kindred skies."