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To Miss Brinckerhoff

Eliza, when the southern gale
Expands the broad majestic sail,
While Friendship breathes the parting sigh, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
To Miss Catharine Ten Eyck

Come and see our habitation,
condescend to be our guest;
Tho' the veins of warring nations …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
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, …

Henry Fielding
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, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
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, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
To Mr. Bleecker

Yes, I invok'd the Muses' aid
To help me write, for 'tis their trade;
But only think, ungrateful Muses, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
To Mrs. D---

Dear Betsey now Pleasure the woodland has left,
Nor more in the water she laves,
Since winter the trees of their bloom has bereft, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
To My Book

Farewell! my fragile, flower-filled book!
I fling thee on the stream of Time,
With faltering hand and fearful soul,-- …

Frances Sargent Osgood
To my friend, on his birthday (II)

He who has walked among his fellow-men
This life's rough path for threescore years and ten,
Bearing for others, on the weary way, …

Anne Lynch Botta
To my quick ear the Leaves — conferred —

To my quick ear the Leaves — conferred —
The Bushes — they were Bells —
I could not find a Privacy …

Emily Dickinson
To my small Hearth His fire came —

To my small Hearth His fire came —
And all my House aglow
Did fan and rock, with sudden light — …
To Nancy F——

To Nancy F——
How can I help thy Husbands copying Me
Should that make difference twixt me & Thee

William Blake
To One denied the drink

To One denied the drink
To tell what Water is
Would be acuter, would it not …
To own a Susan of my own

To own a Susan of my own
Is of itself a Bliss —
Whatever Realm I forfeit, Lord, …
To Peter Cooper

The Pyramids of Egypt, even to-day
The wonder of the world, stupendous stand
In their material greatness, and defy …

Anne Lynch Botta
To pile like Thunder to its close

To pile like Thunder to its close
Then crumble grand away
While Everything created hid …

Emily Dickinson
To Rembrandt

As in that twilight, superstitious age
When all beyond the narrow grasp of mind
Seem'd fraught with meanings of supernal kind, …
To see her is a Picture —

To see her is a Picture —
To hear her is a Tune —
To know her an Intemperance …

Emily Dickinson
To tell the Beauty would decrease

To tell the Beauty would decrease
To state the Spell demean —
There is a syllable-less Sea …

Emily Dickinson
To the century plant

Plant of a hundred years! destroying Time
Passes thy gentle race with hurrying trend,
Leaves their bright petals colorless and dim, …

Anne Lynch Botta