Girl Friend Poem by Lawrence Frankpitt Fearby

Girl Friend (Youthful Impressions)

To me she seems a vision fair

With velvet skin and golden hair

Her eyes: They speak of innocence,

Her bearing pride and eminence!



She'll talk of form and nobly made

Nor doth the impression easily fade.

Oh! How may verses illustrate

Where none may hope to emulate?



When virtues urge to Church she goes

And from a prayer book prattles prose

Thus hoping she may make amends

Her knees in penitence she bends



Though wildly jealous; quickly calmed

Forgiving wrong though truly harmed

Whatever ill I do or say

‘Tis all forgotten within the day!



Although she'll chatter on to me

Of matters and of things we see

In company it's yes or no

Her eloquence has ceased to flow!



Being apt to change that fickle will

She'll seldom promise and fulfill

There always is that lingering doubt

She'll change her mind and turn about.



When duty calls, I must away

We part with tearful eyed dismay

But when I'm gone as life is brief

She'll means devise to cause me grief.



If she should chance in passing by

To catch a look from someone's eye

She'll prim her pride in foolish glee

That tyrant man has turned to see



In captivating other males

Where flattery but seldom fails

Her heart is won to love until

She finds ‘tis I she's wanting still.



With looks she'll seek my scorn to tame

All unimpressed by moral shame

She'll all deny but nothing own

‘Til tears in her guilt is shown



In estimable moments she

Bewails her numerous faults to me

But conscience though thy stabs she feel

‘Tis vanity that blunts the steel!



Though vain and thoughtless yet she's kind

To me at last her giving's blind

For aught I ask, I shall receive

Nor morn request, or giving grieve.



Her mind on film stars is bent

With empty trivial things it's pent

A gay coquet with foolish dreams

Of powder, rouge and facial creams!



Attempts to move or to effect

Imbibe, transfuse or intersect

That maiden's mind has proved a quest

Of futile patient interest!



Should earthly pleasures be unknown?

Or to the surfeit she be prone?

Then possibly she may be true

And never drawn to pastures new!



In fervent prayer, I humbly kneel

That truth to her God will reveal

She'll learn of virtues, modesty

The folly of inconstancy!

6 Years Later
To noble charming wife I'm wed

Contented, happy, over-fed

Oh time, that ever fleeting time,

Hath passed since first I penned this rhyme!



The self same ‘Miss' I did deride

Is seated radiant at my side

Have all these faults, so real before

Departed to be seen no more?



Oh! ‘Tisn't that she's truly changed

Or was my judgment all deranged

Or did I dream and waking see

The blinding of this errant me?



Or did Almighty deem its worth?

His while to bless my hours on earth

And sending to my plan his ear

Has chased away all doubt and fear.


Girl Friend (Conclusion)

Can mere man judge womankind

When all depends on what we find

O' still the achings of his heart

When Cupid's cast that deadly dart.



A woman formed to mortal plan

To every wish of foolish man

Would be no thing of perfect bliss

But nature sadly gone amiss!



Lawrence Frankpitt Fearby