(TO AN IDEAL READER) WHAT would our modern maids to-day? I watch, and can't conjecture: A dubious tale? -- an Ibsen play? -- A pessimistic lecture? I know not. But this, Child, I know You like things sweet and seemly, Old-fashioned flowers, old shapes in Bow, 'Auld Robin Gray' (extremely); You -- with my 'Dorothy' -- delight In fragrant cedar-presses; In window corners warm and bright, In lawn, and lilac dresses; You still can read, at any rate, Charles Lamb and 'Evelina'; To you, My Dear, I dedicate This 'STORY OF ROSINA.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GIRL'S THOUGHTS by ISAAC ROSENBERG POPPY: FANTASTIC EXTRAVAGANCE by FRANCIS THOMPSON THE MEETING by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER IN EMULATION OF MR. COWLEYS POEM CALL'D THE MOTTO by MARY ASTELL WHERE YOUR FEET GO by JOSEPH AUSLANDER PSALM 7; UPON WORDS OF CHUSH THE BENJAMITE; AUGUST 14, 1653 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |