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

For Tirzah Ann,

I was a meloncholly man.

I’m wastin’ slow, my last year’s vests

Hang loose on me; my nightly rests

Are thin as gauze, and thoughts of you,

Gashes ’em wildly through and through,

Oh Tirzah Ann,

I am a meloncholly man.

My heart is in such a burning state,

I feel it soon must conflagrate;