Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

Henry Cuyler Bunner 1855–1896

Henry Cuyler Bunner

234 She Was a Beauty

SHE was a beauty in the days

When Madison was President:

And quite coquettish in her ways—

On conquests of the heart intent.

Grandpapa, on his right knee bent,

Wooed her in stiff, old-fashioned phrase—

She was a beauty in the days

When Madison was President.

And when your roses where hers went

Shall go, my Rose, who date from Hayes,

I hope you ’ll wear her sweet content

Of whom tradition lightly says:

She was a beauty in the days

When Madison was President.