Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend

CHAPTER I

1835-1853

The poet in a golden clime was born With golden stars above.--TENNYSON.

The lingering charm of a dream that is fled.--L.C.M.

Genius, love, and friendship make up a triple dower which holds within itself the possibilities of high destiny. Their changing combinations comprise all intensities of human joy and human sorrow: the richness of sympathet...