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 "id": "maria-lowell/sonnet-4",
 "title": "Sonnet",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Maria Lowell",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "The Poems of Maria Lowell",
 "book_slug": "poems",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1907,
  "venue": "The Poems of Maria Lowell (1907)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "sources": [
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  "repo": "standardebooks/maria-lowell_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
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   "https://archive.org/details/poemsofmarialowe00lowerich"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "I love thee for thyself alone⁠—thyself alone;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For that great soul, whose breath most full and rare,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Shall to humanity a message bear,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Flooding their dreary waste with organ-tone:",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The truth that in thine eyes holds starry throne",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And coins the words that issue from thy lips;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Heroic courage, that meets no eclipse,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And humbler virtues on thy pathway strewn;⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "These love I so, that if they swift uprise",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To sure fulfilment in more perfect spheres,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Still will I listen underneath the skies",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For thy new song, with seldom-dropping tears,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And midst my daily tasks of love will wait",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The angel Death, guardian of Heaven’s gate.",
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