Henry Timrod — a remark

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“Yes, my sister, but love is sweeter than rest!”

Preferring human affection even to the peace of death · Dying words, in reply to a sister's consolation

About Henry Timrod

Henry Timrod

8 December 1828–7 October 1867

Born on December 8, 1828, in Charleston, South Carolina, Henry Timrod was a poet whose verse would come to embody the soul of a region in anguish — the American South during and after the Civil War. Though he lived only thirty-nine years, his life was a tapestry woven with threads of profound beauty, relentless…

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