Sherry Chandler » – attributed to George Washington
– attributed to George Washington
Oh Ye Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart
Stand to oppose thy might and Power
At Last surrender to cupids feather’d Dart
And now lays Bleeding every Hour
For her that’s Pityless of my grief and Woes
And will not on me Pity take
Ill sleep amongst my most Inviterate Foes
And with gladness never with to Wake
In deluding sleepings let my Eyelids close
That in an enraptured Dream I may
In a soft lulling sleep and gentle repose
Possess those joys denied by Day
(This poem is from a diary Washington kept during his time on a surveying expedition in 1749-1750. He would have been 17 - 18 years old. Some think he may merely have copied the poem. Either way, I’d say he was probably a better Father of the Country than poet, though I wouldn’t want to be held to account for anything I wrote at 17.)
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