This week's Poetry Pairing matches Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's poem "Let the Light Enter" with the Feb. 11 obituary of Whitney Houston by Jon Pareles and Adam Nagourney. After reading the poem and obituary, tell us what you think - or suggest other Times content that could be matched with the poem instead. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in 1825 in Baltimore to free African-American parents. She worked as a teacher, traveling speaker and journalist, and helped slaves to escape via the Underground Railroad. Her poem, "Let the Light Enter," recalls the dying words of the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. - Poetry Foundation Let the Light Enter By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Dying Words of Goethe Light! more light! the shadows deepen, And my life is ebbing low, Throw the windows widely open: Light! more light! before I go. Softly let the balmy sunshine Play around my dying bed, E'er the dimly lighted valley I with lonely feet must tread. "Light! more light! for Death is weaving Shadows "round my waning sight, And I fain would gaze upon him Through a stream of earthly light." Not for greater gifts of genius; Not for thoughts more grandly bright, All the dying poet whispers Is a prayer for light, more light. Heeds he not the gathered laurels, Fading slowly from his sight; All the poet's aspirations Centre in that prayer for light. Gracious Saviour, when life's day-dreams Melt and vanish from the sight, May our dim and longing vision Then be blessed with light, more light. In the Feb. 11, 2012, obituary, "Whitney Houston, Pop Superstar, Dies at 48,," Jon Pareles and Adam Nagourney write: Whitney Houston, the multimillion-selling singer who emerged in the 1980s as one of her generation's greatest R&B voices, only to deteriorate through years of cocaine use and an abusive marriage, died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif. ... From the start of her career more than two decades ago, Ms. Houston had the talent, looks and pedigree of a pop superstar. ... Neil R. Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Grammys, called her "one of the world's greatest pop singers of all-time, who leaves behind a robust musical soundtrack." "A light has been dimmed in our music community today," he said.