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ODE: TO MISS MARGARET PULTENEY, DAUGHTER OF DANIEL, IN THE NURSERY by AMBROSE PHILIPS

Poet Analysis

First Line: DIMPLY, DAMSEL, SWEETLY SMILING
Last Line: TENDER, AND AVERSE TO KILLING
Subject(s): BABIES; INFANTS;

DIMPLY damsel, sweetly smiling,
All caressing, none beguiling,
Bud of beauty, fairly blowing,
Every charm to nature owing,
This and that new thing admiring,
Much of this and that inquiring,
Knowledge by degrees attaining,
Day by day some virtue gaining,
Ten years hence, when I leave chiming,
Beardless poets, fondly rhyming
(Fescu'd now, perhaps, in spelling),
On thy riper beauties dwelling,
Shall accuse each killing feature
Of the cruel, charming creature,
Whom I know complying, willing,
Tender, and averse to killing



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