Poems

The Mimic Harlequin “I’ll make believe, and fancy something strange: I will suppose I have the power to change And make all things unlike to what […]

The New-Born Infant Whether beneath sweet beds of roses, As foolish little Ann supposes, The spirit of a babe reposes Before it to the body come; […]

The Offer “Tell me, would you rather be Changed by a fairy to the fine Young orphan heiress Geraldine, Or still be Emily? “Consider, ere you […]

The Old Familiar Faces I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days– All, all are gone, the […]

The Orange The month was June, the day was hot, And Philip had an orange got, The fruit was fragrant, tempting, bright, Refreshing to the smell […]

The Peach Mamma gave us a single peach, She shared it among seven; Now you may think that unto each But a small piece was given. […]

The Rainbow After the tempest in the sky How sweet yon rainbow to the eye! Come, my Matilda, now while some Few drops of rain are […]

The Reaper’s Child If you go to the field where the reapers now bind The sheaves of ripe corn, there a fine little lass, Only three […]

The Reproof Mamma heard me with scorn and pride A wretched beggar-boy deride. “Do you not know,” said I, “how mean It is to be thus […]

The Ride Lately an equipage I overtook, And helped to lift it o’er a narrow brook. No horse it had except one boy, who drew His […]