The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...
The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...
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<strong>The</strong> Salamanca Corpus: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Poetical</strong> <strong>Works</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Miss</strong> <strong>Susanna</strong> <strong>Blamire</strong> (<strong>1842</strong>)<br />
And all that’s good still light upon ye!<br />
Will you allow this hobbling rhyme<br />
To tell you how I pass my time?<br />
‘Tis true I write in shorten’d measure,<br />
Because I scrawl but at my leisure;<br />
For why?—sublimity <strong>of</strong> style<br />
Takes up a most prodigious while;<br />
To count with fingers six or seven,<br />
And mind that syllables are even,—<br />
To make the proper accent fall,<br />
La! ‘tis the very deuce <strong>of</strong> all:<br />
Alternate verse, too, makes me think<br />
How to get t’other line to clink;<br />
And then your odes with two lines rhyming,<br />
An intermitting sort <strong>of</strong> chiming,<br />
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Just like the bells on birth-days ringing,<br />
Or like your friend S. <strong>Blamire</strong>’s singing,<br />
Which only pleases those whose ears<br />
Ne’er heard the music <strong>of</strong> the spheres.<br />
As for this measure, these trite strains<br />
Give me no sort <strong>of</strong> thought or pains;<br />
If that the first line ends with head,<br />
“Why then the rhyme to that is bed;<br />
And so on through the whole essay,<br />
For careless ease makes out my say;<br />
And if you’ll let me tell you how<br />
I pass my time, I’ll tell you now.<br />
First, then, I’ve brought me up my tea,—<br />
A medicine which I’d order’d me;<br />
Its from the coast <strong>of</strong> Labrador,<br />
Sir Hugh, the gallant Commodore 1<br />
Brought it to me for my rheumatics,—<br />
O girls! these aches play me sad tricks;—<br />
And e’en in London had you found me,<br />
You’d found a yard <strong>of</strong> flannel round me.<br />
At eight I rise—a decent time!<br />
But aunt would say ‘tis <strong>of</strong>tener nine.<br />
I come down stairs, the cocoa ready,—<br />
For you must know I’m turn’d fine lady,<br />
And fancy tea gives me a pain<br />
Where ‘tis not decent to complain.