Love Poems – Page 3264
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To Miss Brinckerhoff
Eliza, when the southern gale / Expands the broad majestic sail, / While Friendship breathes the parting sigh, … -
To Miss Catharine Ten Eyck
Come and see our habitation, / condescend to be our guest; / Tho' the veins of warring nations … -
To Miss Edith M. Thomas
Your Pegasus, Edith, is hitched to a star, / While mine drags along a Sixth Avenue car; / Yours bears you away to the far empyrean, … -
To Miss H-and At Bath. Written extempore in the pump-room, 1742.
SOON shall these bounteous springs thy wish bestow, / Soon in each feature sprightly health shall glow; / Thy eyes regain their fire, thy limbs their grace, … -
To Miss M. V. W
Peggy, amidst domestic cares to rhyme / I find no pleasure, and I find no time; / But then, a Poetess, you may suppose, … -
To Miss Ten Eyck II
Dear Kitty, while you rove thro' sylvan bow'rs, / Inhaling fragrance from salubrious flow'rs, / Or view your blushes mant'ling in the stream, … -
To Mistress Margaret Hussey
Merry Margaret / As midsummer flower, / Gentle as falcon … -
To Mistress Margery Wentworth
With margerain gentle, / The flower of goodlihead, / Embroidered the mantle … -
To Mr. Bleecker
Yes, I invok'd the Muses' aid / To help me write, for 'tis their trade; / But only think, ungrateful Muses, … -
To Mr. Bleecker, on his passage to New York
Shall Fancy still pursue th' expanding sails, / Calm Neptune's brow, or raise impelling gales? / Or with her Bleecker, ply the lab'ring oar, …
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