Frances Sargent Osgood (nee Locke) (1811 - 1850) was a U.S. poet.

Poet famous for her exchange of poems with Edgar Allan Poe in the Broadway Journal

Much was rumoured of their relationship but nothing definitive exists to show proof of any impropriety.

To Frances S. Osgood

by Edgar Allan Poe

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.

So with the world thy gentle ways,

    Thy grace, thy more than beauty,

Shall be an endless theme of praise,

    And love - a simple duty.