MARY ANN H.T. BIGELOW



PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR

MDCCCLIII.




TO THE
COMPANION OF HER YOUTH, MIDDLE AGE, AND DECLINING YEARS,
THE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE INSCRIBED
BY HIS
AFFECTIONATE WIFE,

MARY ANN H.T. BIGELOW.




PREFACE.


I must claim the indulgence of my friends for the many defects they will
find in my poems, which they will please wink at, remembering that I was
sixty years old when I commenced rhyming; and this by way of experiment,
while on a visit to my daughter, in Brooklyn.