StoryTitle("caps", "Cupid Drowned") ?> Drowned" (1784-1859), "Cupid Stung" (1779-1852), and "Cupid and My Campasbe" (1558-1606) are three dainty poems recommended by Mrs. Margaret Mooney, of the Albany Teachers' College, in her "Foundation Studies in Literature." Children are always delighted with them.
PoemStart() ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "T'other day as I was twining", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Roses, for a crown to dine in,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "What, of all things, 'mid the heap,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Should I light on, fast asleep,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "But the little desperate elf,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "The tiny traitor, Love, himself!", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "By the wings I picked him up", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a bee, and in a cup", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Of my wine I plunged and sank him,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Then what d'ye think I did?—I drank him.", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Faith, I thought him dead. Not he!", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "There he lives with tenfold glee;", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And now this moment with his wings", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "I feel him tickling my heart-strings.", "") ?>