<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529152" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fannie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fannie has the sweetest foot<br>Ever in a gaiter boot!<br>And the hoyden knows it,<br>And, of course, she shows it-<br>Not the knowledge, but the foot-<br>Yet with such a modest grace,<br>Never seems it out of place,<br>Ah, there are not many<br>Half so sly, or sad, or mad,<br>Or wickeder than Fannie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fannie has the blackest hair<br>Of any of the village girls;<br>It does not shower on her neck<br>In silken or coquettish curls.<br>It droops in folds around her brow,<br>As clouds, at night, around the moon,<br>Looped with lilies here and there,<br>In many a dangerous festoon.<br>And Fannie wears a gipsy hat,<br>Saucily-yes, all of that!<br>Ah, there are not many<br>Half so sly, or sad, or mad,<br>Or wickeder than Fannie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fannie wears an open dress-<br>Ah! the charming chemisette!<br>Half concealing, half revealing<br>Something far more charming yet.<br>Fannie draper her breast with lace,<br>As one would drape a costly vase<br>To keep away mischevious flies;<br>But lace can't keep away one's eyes,<br>For every time her bosom heaves,<br>Ah, it peepeth through it;<br>Yet Fannie looks the while as if<br>Never once she knew it.<br>Ah, there are not many<br>Half so sly, or sad, or mad,<br>Or innocent than Fannie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fannie lays her hand in mine;<br>Fannie speaks with naivete,<br>Fannie kisses me, she does!<br>In her own coquettish way.<br>Then softly speaks and deeply sighs,<br>With angels nestled in her eyes.<br>In the merrie month of May,<br>Fannie swears sincerely<br>She will be my own wife,<br>And love me dearly, dearly<br>Ever after all her life.<br>Ah, there are not many<br>Half so sly, or sad, or mad,<br>As my true-hearted Fannie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529152" data-title="Fannie de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="Fannie has the sweetest foot Ever in a gaiter boot! And the hoyden knows it, And, of course, she shows it- Not the knowledge, but the foot- Yet with such a modest grace, Never seems it out of place, Ah, there are not many Half so sly, or sad, or m..."></div> </div> </div>

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