"To F--S S. O--D" by Edgar Allan Poe

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The picture used is a public domain photo of Frances S. Osgood taken in 1848. The book I am reading from has the name of the poem with the dashes as if to hide the full identity, but it is well known that in this case, the person being referenced is, in fact, Ms. Osgood.

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.