Here's a better scan of this precursor to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963), fromFrom Poets' Wit and Humor by Wh. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860. Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.

From Scribner's 1871.

From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

From the [DuPage] Courier, 1978.  

"The Sun discovered a great bird."  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.

From The Seven Voices by J. Hooker Hamersley, 1898.

"Faces going places."  From Southeastern's 1978 yearbook.

From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

In our experience, it's easier to rhyme streets at 3 a.m. than it is to rhyme streets with "three a.m."  From the apparently quite rare A Street That Rhymed At 3AM by Mark Timlin.

From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

From Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, 1892.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.

From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.

From Edda and the Oak by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and illustrated by Katherine Merrill, 1911.