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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE: TO MISS MARGARET PULTENEY, DAUGHTER OF DANIEL, IN THE NURSERY, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Dimply, damsel, sweetly smiling
Last Line: Tender, and averse to killing
Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by
Variant Title(s): To Miss Margaret Pulteney .. In The Nursery
Subject(s): Babies; Infants
First Line: Dimply, damsel, sweetly smiling
Last Line: Tender, and averse to killing
Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by
Variant Title(s): To Miss Margaret Pulteney .. In The Nursery
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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