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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "To F——" (E), Broadway Journal, September 13, 1845, 1:148, col. 2




[page 148, bottom of column 2:]
TO F——.

Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart
    From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
    Be nothing which thou art not!








Notes:

"F——" is Frances Sargent Osgood. Appearing in an unsigned and truncated version, squeezed at the end of a column (after Poe's tale "Diddling Considered as one of the Exact Sciences" and before "Blanche," a poem by L. J. Cist), Poe's poem is clearly being used as filler material.






 
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