| Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875. |
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| A. Philips |
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| CXXI. To Charlotte Pulteney |
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| TIMELY blossom, Infant fair, | |
| Fondling of a happy pair, | |
| Every morn and every night | |
| Their solicitous delight, | |
| Sleeping, waking, still at ease, | 5 |
| Pleasing, without skill to please; | |
| Little gossip, blithe and hale, | |
| Tattling many a broken tale, | |
| Singing many a tuneless song, | |
| Lavish of a heedless tongue; | 10 |
| Simple maiden, void of art, | |
| Babbling out the very heart, | |
| Yet abandon'd to thy will, | |
| Yet imagining no ill, | |
| Yet too innocent to blush; | 15 |
| Like the linnet in the bush | |
| To the mother-linnet's note | |
| Moduling her slender throat; | |
| Chirping forth thy petty joys, | |
| Wanton in the change of toys, | 20 |
| Like the linnet green, in May | |
| Flitting to each bloomy spray; | |
| Wearied then and glad of rest, | |
| Like the linnet in the nest:— | |
| This thy present happy lot, | 25 |
| This in time will be forgot: | |
| Other pleasures, other cares, | |
| Ever-busy Time prepares; | |
| And thou shalt in thy daughter see, | |
| This picture, once, resembl'd thee. | 30 |
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