To My Daughter[1] On Her Birthday.

"'Twas in the middle of the night,     To sleep young William tried,     When Mary's ghost came stealing in,     And stood at his bedside."

"It's a shame, so it is, - men can't Let alone     Jobs as is Woman's right to do - and go about there Own -     Theirs Reforms enuff Alreddy wi"

"Farewell, farewell, to my mother's own daughter.     The child that she wet-nursed is lapp'd in the wave;     The Mussulman, coming to fish in t"

"The curse of Adam, the old curse of all,     Though I inherit in this feverish life     Of worldly toil, vain wishes, and hard strife,     And"

"(In Four Books.) With eager search to dart the soul, Curiously vain, from pole to pole, And from the planets' wandering spheres To extort the number o"

"POETS, like lawful monarchs, ruled the stage, Till critics, like damn'd Whigs, debauch'd our age. Mark how they jump: critics would regulate Our theat"