The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
I almost as a sister lov’d thee,
And thought that nothing could have moy’d thee!
But, like the dewdrops on a spray
That shrinks before the morning ray,—
Like the frail sunshine on the stream,
Thy friendship faded as a dream.
When sickness and when sorrow tried me,
Thy aid—thy friendship was denied me;
Thy love was but a summer flower,
And could not stand the wintry shower:
More for thyself than me I grieve
Thou could’st thus cruelly deceive.
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I AM OF A TEMPER FIXED AS A DECREE.
I AM of a temper fixed as a decree,
Resolv’d with myself to live happy and free;
With the cares of this world I am seldom perplex’d,
I am sometimes uneasy, but never quite vex’d;
I am neither too high nor too low in degree;
There are more that live worse than live better than me.
My life thus moves on amid freedom and ease,
I go where I will, and I come when I please;
I am plac’d below envy, and yet above spite;
I’ve judgment enough still to do myself right:
Some higher, some lower, I own there may be,
But ambition and want are both strangers to me.
When money comes in, pleas’d I live till ‘tis gone,
I am happy when with it, contented with none;
If I spend it ‘mong friends I count it but lent,
It thus goes genteelly—I never repent;
With mirth to my labour the hours sweetly pass,
Though at Saturday night I am just where I was.