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We have collected these purse poems from many sources. Some are short and some long, but all these poems involve purses, wallets, and handbags in the poetic literature. They aptly illustrate the important role of purses and other types of carrying cases for valuables in history.

 

You keep your personal valuables and essentials with you in your personal purse or handbag, as women and men have done the same for thousands of years. In the 21st century, we often look for the finest designer and fashion purses, wallets, and handbags. They may display our wealth, our sense of asthetics, and even our sense of self.

 

Compared with today, however, the purses of the past often carried a much greater share of a person's wealth. In the past, people lacked the benefits and relative safety of credit cards, debt cards, checks, and wire transfers. Simultaneously, societies were often much less secure, particularly when you traveled far from home. Many, many years ago, the last thing a person might want to call attention to was the size and richness of one's purse!

 

On a theme of the insecurity of one's purse, our first purse poem is the story of how John Thompson lost not only his purse, but also his daughter!

 

 

 

A fellow near Kentucky's clime
Cries, "Boatman, do not tarry,
And I'll give thee a silver dime
To row us o'er the ferry."
 
"Now, who would cross the Ohio,
This dark and stormy water?"
"Oh, I am this young lady's beau,
And she John Thompson's daughter.
 
"We've fled before her father's spite
With great precipitation,
And should he find us here to-night,
I'd lose my reputation.
 
"They've missed the girl and purse beside,
His horsemen hard have pressed me.
And who will cheer my bonny bride,
If yet they shall arrest me?"
 
Out spoke the boatman then in time,
"You shall not fail, don't fear it;
I'll go not for your silver dime,
But—for your manly spirit.
 
"And by my word, the bonny bird
In danger shall not tarry;
For though a storm is coming on,
I'll row you o'er the ferry."
 
By this the wind more fiercely rose,
The boat was at the landing,
And with the drenching rain their clothes
Grew wet where they were standing.
 
But still, as wilder rose the wind,
And as the night grew drearer,
Just back a piece came the police,
Their tramping sounded nearer.
 
"Oh, haste thee, haste!" the lady cries,
"It's anything but funny;
I'll leave the light of loving eyes,
But not my father's money!"
 
And still they hurried in the race
Of wind and rain unsparing;
John Thompson reached the landing-place,
His wrath was turned to swearing.
 
For by the lightning's angry flash,
His child he did discover;
One lovely hand held all the cash,
And one was round her lover!
 
"Come back, come back," he cried in woe,
Across the stormy water;
"But leave the purse, and you may go,
My daughter, oh, my daughter!"
 
'Twas vain; they reached the other shore,
(Such dooms the Fates assign us),
The gold he piled went with his child,
And he was left there, minus.
 

Phoebe Cary

 

 

"POEMS TEACHERS ASK FOR -- BOOK TWO"

 

"NORMAL INSTRUCTOR-PRIMARY PLANS" Magazine

 

Early 20th Century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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