Poems

Youth But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. .the strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

Careless Matilda “AGAIN, Matilda, is your work undone! Your scissors, where are they? your thimble, gone? Your needles, pins, and thread and tapes all lost; Your […]

Frances Keeps Her Promise “MY Fanny, I have news to tell, Your diligence quite pleases me; You’ve work’d so neatly, read so well, With cousin Jane […]

George And The Chimney-Sweep HIS petticoats now George cast off, For he ws four years old; His trousers were of nankeen stuff, With buttons bright as […]

James and the Shoulder of Mutton YOUNG Jem at noon return’d from school, As hungry as could be, He cried to Sue, the servant-maid, “My dinner […]

Sophia’s Fools-Cap SOPHIA was a little child, Obliging, good, and very mild, Yet lest of dress she should be vain, Mamma still dress’d her well, but […]

The Boys And The Apple Tree As William and Thomas were walking one day, They came by a fine orchard’s side: They would rather eat apples […]

The Butterfly THE Butterfly, an idle thing, Nor honey makes, nor yet can sing, As do the bee and bird; Nor does it, like the prudent […]

The Child’s Monitor THE wind blows down the largest tree, And yet the wind I cannot see! Playmates far off, who have been kind, My thought […]

The Wooden Doll and the Wax Doll THERE were two friends, a very charming pair, Brunette the brown, and Blanchidine the fair; And she to love […]