My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's / Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, But Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book

by Marietta Holley

As he waited on you from spellin’ school,

My anguish spurned all curb and rule,

My manhood cried, “be calm! forbear!”

Else I should have tore out my hair;

For Tirzah Ann,

I was a meloncholly man.

As I walked behind, he little knew

What danger did his steps pursue;

I had no dagger to unsheath,

But fiercely did I grate my teeth;