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 reviewed, I should feel it quite necessary to improve it, (the poetry, I mean.) But as it would require quite too much exertion for my eyes in their present state, and as the history, dates, &c., I believe, are correct, I send it to the press “with all its imperfections on its head.”

Contents.

• Kings and Queens of England
• To my Daughter Elizabeth
• Acrostic
• The Evening of Life
• An Acrostic
• An Acrostic
• Written upon receiving a New Year’s Gift
• Lines to the Memory of Patrick Kelley
• My S.S. Class
• For my Grandsons, Eddie and Allie
• For my Granddaughters, M. and L., an Acrostic
• To my Friend, Mrs.R.
• To my Niece, Angeline
• An Acrostic
• An Acrostic
• She slumbers still
• To a Friend in the City
• Reply
• Rejoinder to the foregoing Reply
• To my Friend, Mr.J. Ellis
• A Pastoral
• The Jessamine
• For the Sabbath School Concert
• Feed my Lambs
• God is Love
• To my Friend, Mrs. Lloyd
• Escape of the Israelites
• Ordination Hymn
• Margaret’s Remembrance of Lightfoot
• The Clouds return after the Rain
• The Nocturnal Visit
• Sovereignty and Free Agency
• Autumn and Sunset
• “My times are in thy hand”
• November
• Winter
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