E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Stephanie McKee, Bill Tozier, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 34762-h.htm or 34762-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34762/pg34762-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34762/34762-h.zip) Transcriber's note: In many places, this work contains asterisks within words (as a form of censorship?) or to represent missing fragments of text. These asterisks, while they appear clumsy, are preserved in order to avoid changing the meaning of the text. Because of the prevalence of asterisks in the work, thought breaks are denoted by strings of dashes instead of the standard strings of asterisks. Text surrounded by underscores is italicized in the original work. The string [oe] is used to refer to the oe ligature, which is not available in this character set. FANNY WITH OTHER POEMS. [Illustration: WEEHAWKEN.] New-York Harper & Brothers FANNY, "A fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play in the plighted clouds." MILTON. FROM THE EDITION OF 1821. F. G. Halleck. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff Street 1846. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS. PAGE Fanny ...........................................5 The Recorder ...................................73 EPISTLES, ETC. To W*lt*r B*wne, Esq. ..........................95 To ***** ......................................101 A Fragment ....................................107 Song, by Miss *** .............................111 Song, for the Drama of the Spy ................115 Address at the Opening of a new Theatre .......117 The Rhyme of the Ancient Coaster ..............121 FANNY. I. Fanny was younger once than she is now, And prettier of course: I do not mean To say that there are wrinkles on her brow; Yet, to be candid, she is past eighteen-- Perhaps past twenty--but the girl is shy About her age, and Heaven forbid that I II. Should get myself in trouble by revealing A secret of this sort; I have too long Loved pretty women with a poet's feeling, And when a boy, in day dream and in song, Have knelt me down and worshipp'd them: alas! They never thank'd me for't--but let that pass. III.