Poor Polly the Mad Girl

DESCRIPTION: "Poor Polly was mad, and she sighed all alone, Her bed the damp turf, and her pillow a stone... For, alas! in that breast reigned love's ardent desire, And she thought the bleak winds might perhaps cool the fire." The man who abandoned her is to blame
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1836 (The Nonpariel, according to Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam)
KEYWORDS: love rambling abandonment
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, p. 134, "Poor Polly the Mad Girl" (1 text)
Roud #13965
File: JESU134

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