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IN A LETTER to A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA.
1 FORGIVE me, if I wound your ear,
2 By calling of you Nancy,
3 Which is the name of my sweet friend,
4 The other's but her fancy.
5 Ah, dearest girl! how could your mind
6 The strange distinction frame?
7 The whimsical, unjust caprice,
8 Which robs you of your name.
9 Nancy agrees with what we see,
10 A being wild and airy;
11 Gay as a nymph of Flora's train,
12 Fantastic as a fairy.
13 But Anna's of a different kind,
14 A melancholy maid;
15 Boasting a sentimental soul,
16 In solemn pomp array'd.
17 Oh ne'er will forsake the sound,
18 So artless and so free!
19 Be what you will with all mankind.
20 But Nancy, still with me.
Source edition
Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich: Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich, 1797, pp. [22]-23. (ESTC T143264)
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Other works by (Mary) Matilda Betham
- ARTHUR and ALBINA. ()
- [CANTATA DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. ()
- [CANTATA. [DELL] METASTAISO.] TRANSLATION. ()
- CEN'LIN, PRINCE OF MERCIA. ()
- THE COMPLAINT OF FANCY. To A. R. C. ()
- EDITHA ()
- FRAGMENT. ()
- FRAGMENT. ()
- THE FRATERNAL DUEL. ()
- HUMAN PLEASURE OR PAIN. ()
- IN MEMORY OF Mr. AGOSTINO ISOLA, OF CAMBRIDGE, Who died on the 5th of June, 1797. ()
- INVITATION, To J. B. C. ()
- [LA FORTUNA. DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. ()
- THE LONELY WALK To W. S. B. ()
- ON A FAN ()
- ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE From O — ()
- THE OUTLAW ()
- PHILEMON. ()
- RHAPSODY ()
- [SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.] SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION ()
- THE TERRORS OF GUILT ()
- TO M. I. ()
- TO M. I. ()
- TO SIMPLICITY. ()
- TO THE NUNS OF BODNEY. ()
- Written April the 18th, 1796. ()
- Written in London, on the 19th of March 1796. ()
- WRITTEN IN ZIMMERMANN's SOLITUDE. ()
- WRITTEN ON WHITSUN-MONDAY 1795. ()