Ada Cambridge Fashion Poems
- 1. Fashion
See those resplendent creatures, as they glide
O'er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall,
From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall -
A dazzling vision in their pomp and pride!
... - 2. Afar Off
1.
Is it a will o' the wisp, or is dawn breaking,
That our horizon wears so strange a hue?
... - 3. Aunt Dorothy's Lecture
Come, go and practiseâ??get your workâ??
Do something, Nelly, pray.
I hate to see you moon about
In this uncertain way!
... - 4. The Season
And must I wear a silken life,
Hemmed in by city walls?
And must I give my garden up
For theatres and balls?
... - 5. Mates
It boots not to retrace the path
To ages dim and hoar,
When Man, at the domestic hearth,
First learned the art of war,
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