Chapter I: Front Matter

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FANNY WITH OTHER POEMS.

New-York Harper & Brothers

FANNY,

"A fairy vision
Of some gay creatures of the element,
That in the colours of the rainbow live,
And play in the plighted clouds."

MILTON.

FROM THE EDITION OF 1821.

F. G. Halleck.

New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff Street 1846.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS.

PAGE Fanny ...........................................5 The Recorder ...................................73

EPISTLES, ETC.

To W*lt*r B*wne, Esq. ..........................95 To ***** ......................................101 A Fragment ....................................107 Song, by Miss *** .............................111 Song, for the Drama of the Spy ................115 Address at the Opening of a new Theatre .......117 The Rhyme of the Ancient Coaster ..............121

FANNY.

I.

Fanny was younger once than she is now,
And prettier of course: I do not mean
To say that there are wrinkles on her brow;
Yet, to be candid, she is past eighteen--
Perhaps past twenty--but the girl is shy
About her age, and Heaven forbid that I

II.

Should get myself in trouble by revealing
A secret of this sort; I have too long
Loved pretty women with a poet's feeling,
And when a boy, in day dream and in song,
Have knelt me down and worshipp'd them: alas!
They never thank'd me for't--but let that pass.

III.

I've felt full many a heart-ache in my day,
At the mere rustling of a muslin gown,
And caught some dreadful colds, I blush to say,
While shivering in the shade of beauty's frown.
They say her smiles are sunbeams--it may be--
But never a sunbeam would she throw on me.

IV.

But Fanny's is an eye that you may gaze on
For half an hour, without the slightest harm;
E'en when she wore her smiling summer face on
There was but little danger, and the charm
That youth and wealth once gave, has bade farewell.
Hers is a sad, sad tale--'tis mine its woes to tell.

V.

Her father kept, some fifteen years ago,
A retail dry-good shop in Chatham-street,
And nursed his little earnings, sure though slow,
Till, having muster'd wherewithal to meet
The gaze of the great world, he breathed the air
Of Pearl-street--and "set up" in Hanover-square.

VI.

Money is power, 'tis said--I never tried;
I'm but a poet--and bank-notes to me
Are curiosities, as closely eyed,
Whene'er I get them, as a stone would be,
Toss'd from the moon on Doctor Mitchill's table,
Or classic brickbat from the tower of Babel.