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Title: The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems

Author: Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow

Release Date: February 7, 2005 [EBook #14955]

Language: English

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[Inscription: I will add a few words respecting my kings and
Queens.

They were hastily written from the impulse of the moment, for my
own entertainment, and that of my youngest grand-daughter, without
the remotest idea of printing them. This is my apology for the
careless, familiar style in which they were composed. At the
request of my children I concluded to print them, when it would
have been highly proper to have furnished my royal personages with
a dress more befitting the occasion. But the state of my eyes
rendered it very inconvenient, if not hazardous to attempt it.
And as they are only intended to visit a few of my friends, I
trust to their good nature to excuse the homely garb in which they
are presented.]

THE

KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND

WITH

OTHER POEMS

BY

MARY ANN H.T. BIGELOW

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR

MDCCCLIII.

TO THE
COMPANION OF HER YOUTH, MIDDLE AGE, AND DECLINING YEARS,
THE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE INSCRIBED
BY HIS
AFFECTIONATE WIFE,

MARY ANN H.T. BIGELOW.

PREFACE.

I must claim the indulgence of my friends for the many defects they will
find in my poems, which they will please wink at, remembering that I was
sixty years old when I commenced rhyming; and this by way of experiment,
while on a visit to my daughter, in Brooklyn.

My first essay, was The Monarchs of England. I took it up for my
amusement, wishing to ascertain how much of that history I could recollect
without help from any other source than memory.

The rhyme is in many places far from smooth, and there are many
redundances that might with advantage be lopped off; and were it to come
under the critic's eye to be re