Susanna Blamire

Susanna Blamire (12 January 1747 – 1794) was an English Romantic poet, sometimes known as 'The Muse of Cumberland'.

Quotes

• I’ve gotten a rock, I’ve gotten a reel,
  I’ve gotten a wee bit spinning-wheel;
  An’ by the whirling rim I’ve found
  How the weary, weary warl goes round.
  • "I’ve Gotten a Rock, I’ve Gotten a Reel", l. 1

• Should we miss but a tree where we used to be playing,
  Or find the wood cut where we sauntered a-Maying,—
  If the yew-seat’s away, or the ivy’s a-wanting,
  We hate the fine lawn and the new-fashioned planting.
  Each thing called improvement seems blackened with crimes,
  If it tears up one record of blissful old times.
  • "When Home We Return", l. 7

External links

• Henry Lonsdale (ed.), The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1847), pp. 191, 193