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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER LIKENESS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography
First Line: A girl, who has so many wilful ways
Last Line: On every hand of that which she doth sow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Admiration
First Line: A girl, who has so many wilful ways
Last Line: On every hand of that which she doth sow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Admiration
A GIRL, who has so many wilful ways
She would have caused Job's patience to
forsake him;
Yet is so rich in all that's girlhood's praise,
Did Job himself upon her goodness gaze,
A little better she would surely make him.
Yet is this girl I sing in naught uncommon,
And very far from angel yet, I trow.
Her faults, her sweetness, are purely human;
Yet she's more lovable as simple woman
Than any one diviner that I know.
Therefore I wish that she may safely keep
This womanhede, and change not, only grow:
From maid to matron, youth to age, may creep,
And in perennial blessedness, still reap
On every hand of that which she doth sow.
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