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Title: The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems
Author: Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14955]
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[Inscription: I will add a few words respecting my kings and Queens.
They were hastily written from the impulse of the moment, for my own
entertainment, and that of my youngest grand-daughter, without the
remotest idea of printing them. This is my apology for the careless,
familiar style in which they were composed. At the request of my
children I concluded to print them, when it would have been highly
proper to have furnished my royal personages with a dress more
befitting the occasion. But the state of my eyes rendered it very
inconvenient, if not hazardous to attempt it. And as they are only
intended to visit a few of my friends, I trust to their good nature to
excuse the homely garb in which they are presented.]
THE
KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

WITH
OTHER POEMS
BY
MARY ANN H.T. BIGELOW
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR
MDCCCLIII.
TO THE
COMPANION OF HER YOUTH, MIDDLE AGE,
AND DECLINING YEARS,
THE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE
INSCRIBED
BY HIS
AFFECTIONATE WIFE,
MARY ANN H.T. BIGELOW.
PREFACE.
I must claim the indulgence of my friends for the many defects they
will find in my poems, which they will please wink at, remembering
that I was sixty years old when I commenced rhyming; and this by way
of experiment, while on a visit to my daughter, in Brooklyn.
My first essay, was The Monarchs of England. I took it up for my
amusement, wishing to ascertain how much of that history I could
recollect without help from any other source than memory.
The rhyme is in many places far from smooth, and there are many
redundances that might with advantage be lopped off; and were it to
come under the critic's eye to be reviewed, I should feel it quite
necessary to improve it, (the poetry, I mean.) But as it would require
quite too much exertion for my eyes in their present state, and as the
history, dates, &c., I believe, are correct, I send it to the press "with all
its imperfections on its head."
CONTENTS.

Kings and Queens of England
To my Daughter Elizabeth
Acrostic

The Evening of Life
An Acrostic
An Acrostic
Written upon
receiving a New Year's Gift
Lines to the Memory of Patrick Kelley

My S.S. Class
For my Grandsons, Eddie and Allie
For my
Granddaughters, M. and L., an Acrostic
To my Friend, Mrs.R.
To
my Niece, Angeline
An Acrostic
An Acrostic
She slumbers still

To a Friend in the City
Reply
Rejoinder to the foregoing Reply

To my Friend, Mr.J. Ellis
A Pastoral
The Jessamine
For the
Sabbath School Concert
Feed my Lambs
God is Love
To my
Friend, Mrs. Lloyd
Escape of the Israelites
Ordination Hymn

Margaret's Remembrance of Lightfoot
The Clouds return after the
Rain
The Nocturnal Visit
Sovereignty and Free Agency
Autumn
and Sunset
"My times are in thy hand"
November
Winter
Life's
Changes
"They will not frame their doings"
"Take no thought for
the morrow"
Reminiscences of the Departed
"Let me die the death
of the righteous"
The Great Physician
To my Niece, Mrs. M.A.
Caldwell
The Morning Drive, for my Daughter Margaret
Reply to a
Toast

To Mr. C.R.
To my Missionary Friends
To my Husband
POEMS.
THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND,
FROM THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS OR THE NORMAN
CONQUEST, TO THE PRESENT REIGN, INCLUSIVE.
First, William the Norman lays claim to the crown
And retains it till
death; then follows his son
The red headed William, whose life is cut
short
By a shot from his friend, when hunting for sport.
Then Henry
his brother takes quiet possession,
As Henry the first, of the great
English nation.
Next Stephen, a kinsman gets the crown by his might,

But no one pretends to say he had a right.
Then comes Hal the
second, who cuts a great figure
With Becket, fair Rosamond and
Queen Eliner.
The Lion-hearted Richard, first of that name,


Succeeded his father in power and in fame;
He joined the Crusade to
a far distant land
But his life was cut short by a murderous hand.

Next comes the cruel_ and _cowardly John,
From whose hand,
reluctant, Magna Charta was won.
Then his son Henry third, deny it
who can?
Though unfit for a King, was yet a good man,
And his
reign though a long one of fifty-six years
Was full of perplexities,
sorrows, and fears.
His son Edward first next governs the nation,

Much respected and feared, in holding that station.
The Principality
of Wales was annexed in his reign,
And his son Edward