| Samuel Kettell, ed. Specimens of American Poetry. 1829. | | | | Anne Bullen | | By Rufus Dawes (1803–1859) |
| | | I WEEP while gazing on thy modest face | |
| Thou pictured history of woman’s love, | |
| Joy spreads his beaming pinions on thy cheek | |
| Shaming its whiteness, and thine eyes are full | |
| Of conscious beauty while they undulate. | 5 |
| Yet all thy beauty—all thy gentleness | |
| Served but to light thy ruin. Is there not | |
| Kind heaven! some secret talisman of hearts | |
| Whereby to find a resting-place for love? | |
| Unhappy maiden! let thy history teach | 10 |
| The beautiful and young that when their path | |
| Softens with roses, danger may be there; | |
| That love may watch the bubbles of the stream, | |
| But never trust his image on the wave! | | | | |
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