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Poem
March 8, 1819
Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
What is this article about?
A romantic farewell poem addressed to a charming girl with bonny blue eyes, expressing the speaker's departure over western hills and mountains, hoping she will remember their affection and respond with sympathy.
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To Miss
I now leave you dear girl, now so charming
and gay,
O'er the hills of the west I must distantly stray,
Will a tear moist your cheek, when I'm
gone, far away?
O say my sweet girl with a bonny blue eye!
When gone, will you ever recall me to mind?
Or will absence with thee loose affection's
warm tie?
O no! for you swore I'll but me you've re-
Did you not my sweet girl with a bonny
blue eye
When in fancy's domain, I shall sometimes
discern,
And listen again to that love breathing sigh
Which assur'd me your heart beat a tender
reply,
To my love for the girl with a bonny blue eye.
A sigh from the mountains I'll send you my love!
Will your soul echo sweetly a wishful reply?
For 'tis love that can only such sympathy move:
In the bosom of her with a bonny blue eye.
Then I leave you, dear girl, now so glee-
some and gay,
O'er mountains and rivers afar I must hie:
All I ask is a thought when you feel me away,
So adieu my sweet girl with a bonny blue eye.
To Miss
I now leave you dear girl, now so charming
and gay,
O'er the hills of the west I must distantly stray,
Will a tear moist your cheek, when I'm
gone, far away?
O say my sweet girl with a bonny blue eye!
When gone, will you ever recall me to mind?
Or will absence with thee loose affection's
warm tie?
O no! for you swore I'll but me you've re-
Did you not my sweet girl with a bonny
blue eye
When in fancy's domain, I shall sometimes
discern,
And listen again to that love breathing sigh
Which assur'd me your heart beat a tender
reply,
To my love for the girl with a bonny blue eye.
A sigh from the mountains I'll send you my love!
Will your soul echo sweetly a wishful reply?
For 'tis love that can only such sympathy move:
In the bosom of her with a bonny blue eye.
Then I leave you, dear girl, now so glee-
some and gay,
O'er mountains and rivers afar I must hie:
All I ask is a thought when you feel me away,
So adieu my sweet girl with a bonny blue eye.
What sub-type of article is it?
Song
What themes does it cover?
Love Courtship
What keywords are associated?
Bonny Blue Eye
Farewell
Love Separation
Western Hills
Affection Tie
Poem Details
Title
To Miss
Subject
Farewell Upon Departing West
Form / Style
Rhymed Stanzas
Key Lines
O Say My Sweet Girl With A Bonny Blue Eye!
So Adieu My Sweet Girl With A Bonny Blue Eye.