Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook

I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?

Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook

Better build schoolrooms for "the boy"
Than cells and gibbets for "the man."

Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!