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Blackberries

by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
 
[epigraph]
 
[dedication]

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[May loving bosom loving bosom press]
 
[Some extol passion far above]
 
[Ruddy double-flower of a Kiss]
 
[My Darling, you have no father or mother]
 
[To-day since I have seen her face]
 
[The expectancy of joy]
 
[Ev'n in thy arms, O Fair!]
 
[Tho' bright with youthful bloom and grace]
 
[Mary would have loved me well]
 
[O girl of comely form and face]
 
[I laugh'd in Pleasure's face]
 
[“I will have none but a Queen]
 
[Whenever I see from my loneliness]
 
[Not a Venus-Minerva could charm if she lack'd]
 
[For a woman's true thought in wait you must lie]
 
[If any two can live together well]
 
[By your withholdings you have lost his heart]
 
[To be Prince, many men would refuse]
 
[Of Wives it were hard to bear]
 
[With whom were it a grievous lot to live?]
 
[Old Man may captivate Miss in her teens]
 
[Beware what you discover]
 
[Women, in and out of season]
 
[Men's wives' opinions, what are they to us?]
 
[A woman's prime is nearly done]
 
[If all might choose their sex, there would not then]
 
[A woman will give a man a guinea]
 
[Good Marriage, good Marriage, the greatest prize]
 
[With a Man for thy mate, be content, O Woman, in married life]
 
[Right Marriage: elevation in communion]
 
[Whatever joys await the blest above]
 
[Love's lips are always young]
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[Each thinks himself exceptional]

Each thinks himself exceptional:
Ridiculous!—and yet sublime.
The individual may be small,
Yet individuality's the prime
Glory and hope of us poor Sons of Time.
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