Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, Vawter, Will, 1871-1941 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 92
ic Of the maddest meadow-brook. —Yet all in vain I praise The Little Lady ! Her eyes are blue and dewy As the glimmering Summer-dawn,— Her face is like the eglantineBefore the dew is gone ; And were that honied mouth of hersA bees to feast upon, He d be a bee bewildered, Little Lady ! Her brow… … SHE S BUT A RACING SCHOOL-GIRL. THE LITTLE LADY And yet slie ^s neither Nymph nor Fay, Nor yet of Angelkind :—She s but a racing school-girl, with Her hair blown out behindAnd tremblingly unbraided by The fingers of the Wind,As it wildly swoops upon The Little Lady. [79] COMPANY MANNERS When Bess…
Children's poetry, American
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