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" twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows. She talked of politics or prayers — Of Southey's prose, or Wordsworth's sonnets, Of danglers or of dancing bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets ; By candle-light, at twelve... "
The Parlor Muse: A Selection of Vers de Société from Modern Poets - Page 7
by Oliver Bell Bunce - 1884 - 96 pages
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 4

Great Britain - 1830 - 484 pages
...bears ; Of battles, or the last new bonnets. By candlelight, at twelve o'clock, To me — it matter'd not a tittle ; If those bright lips had quoted Locke,...have thought they murmured Little. " Through sunny Bfay, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the Moon, I wrote...
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The Literary souvenir; or, Cabinet of poetry and romance, ed. by A.A. Watts ...

Alaric Alexander Watts - 1831 - 396 pages
...prose, or Wordsworth's sonnets ; Of danglers, or of dancing bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets : By candlelight, at twelve o'clock, To me it mattered...Locke, I might have thought they murmured Little. V. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal; I spoke her praises to...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...prose or Wordsworth's sonnets. Of danglers or of dancing bears, Of battles or the last new bonnets; By candle-light, at twelve o'clock, — To me it mattered...a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, 1 wrote them to the Sunday Journal. My mother laughed; I soon found out That ancient ladies have no...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...prose, or Wordsworth's sonnets, Of daggers, or of dancing bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets ; By candle-light, at twelve o'clock, To me it mattered not a tittle, If those bright lips had quoted Locko, I might have thought they murmured Little. Tli rough sunny May, through sultry June, I loved...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...quoted Locke, I might have thought they murmur'd Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, J loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, 1 wrote them to the Sunday Journal. My mother laugh'd ; 1 soon found out That ancient ladies have no...
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The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets ; By candle-light, at twelve o'clock, To me it matter'd not a tittle, If those bright lips had quoted Locke,...eternal ; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them for the Sunday Journal. My mother laughed ; I soon found out That ancient ladies have no feeling ;...
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The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 292 pages
...through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal; I spoke her praises to the moon, I wrote them for the Sunday Journal. My mother laughed; I soon found...out That ancient ladies have no feeling ; My father frown'd ; but how should gout She was the daughter of a dean, ^k Rich, fat, and rather apoplectic ;...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets ; By candle-light, at twelve o'clock, To me it matter'd not a tittle, If those bright lips had quoted Locke, I might have thought they murmur'd Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets ; By candle-light, at twelve o'elock, To me it matter'd not a tittle, If those bright lips had quoted Locke, I might have thought they murmur'd Little. Through sunny May, through sultry June, I loved her with a love eternal ; I spoke...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...prose, or Wordsworth's sonnets, Of daggers, or of dancing bears, Of battles, or the last new bonnets; By candle-light, at twelve o'clock, To me it mattered...spoke her praises to the moon, • • I wrote them for the Sunday journal. My mother laughed; I sooh found out That ancient ladies have no feeling. My...
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