Careless Mathilda (Ann Taylor Poems)
AGAIN, Matilda, is your work undone! Your scissors, where are they? your thimble, gone?Your needles, pins, and thread and tapes ...
AGAIN, Matilda, is your work undone! Your scissors, where are they? your thimble, gone?Your needles, pins, and thread and tapes ...
THERE were two friends, a very charming pair,Brunette the brown, and Blanchidine the fair; And she to love Brunette did ...
MY Fanny, I have news to tell, Your diligence quite pleases me; You've work'd so neatly, read so well, With ...
One ugly trick has often spoil'd The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possess'd, ...
I THINK I want some pies this morning, Said Dick, stretching himself and yawning; So down he threw his slate ...
YOUNG Jem at noon return'd from school, As hungry as could be, He cried to Sue, the servant-maid, "My dinner ...
I'm a helpless cripple child, Gentle Christians, pity me; Once, in rosy health I smiled, Blithe and gay as you ...
OLD John had an apple-tree, healthy and green,Which bore the best codlins that ever were seen,So juicy, so mellow, and ...
LET those who're fond of idle tricks,Of throwing stones, and hurling bricks,And all that sort of fun,Now hear a tale ...
AH! don't you remember, 'tis almost December,And soon will the holidays come;Oh, 'twill be so funny, I've plenty of money,I'll ...
OH, look at that great ugly spider! said Ann; And screaming, she brush'd it away with her fan; "'Tis a ...
IN tears to her mother poor Harriet came, Let us listen to hear what she says:"O see, dear mamma, it ...
HIS petticoats now George cast off, For he ws four years old; His trousers were of nankeen stuff, With buttons ...
My sweet little girl should be cheerful and mild She must not be fretful and cry! Oh! why is this ...
AH, Mary! what, do you for dolly not care? And why is she left on the floor? Forsaken, and cover'd ...
THE wind blows down the largest tree, And yet the wind I cannot see! Playmates far off, who have been ...
IN an elegant frock, trimm'd with beautiful lace,And hair nicely curl'd, hanging over her face,Young Fanny went out to the ...
TWO good little children, named Mary and Ann, Both happily live, as good girls always can; And though they are ...
From morning till night it was Lucy's delight To chatter and talk without stopping: There was not a day but ...
WHY does my Anna toss her head,And look so scornfully around,As if she scarcely deign'd to treadUpon the daisy-dappled ground? ...
AH! why will my dear little girl be so cross,And cry, and look sulky, and pout? To lose her sweet ...
Ah! the poor little blackamoor, see there he goes,And the blood gushes out from his half frozen toes,And his legs ...
But, mamma, now, said Charlotte, "pray, don't you believe That I'm better than Jenny, my nurse? Only see my red ...
SOPHIA was a little child, Obliging, good, and very mild,Yet lest of dress she should be vain, Mamma still dress'd ...
ON the cheerful village green, Skirted round with houses small,All the boys and girls are seen,Playing there with hoop and ...
Who sat and watched my infant headWhen sleeping on my cradle bed,And tears of sweet affection shed?My Mother.When pain and ...
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,How I wonder what you are!Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.When the ...
MY father and mother are dead, Nor friend, nor relation I know; And now the cold earth is their bed, ...
Go, go, my naughty girl, and kiss Your little sister dear; I must not have such things as this, And ...
Well, what's the matter? there's a face What ! has it cut a vein?And is it ...
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