In fact, they reveal a most human and even pitiable young man. These poems make him seem far from the statuesque and wooden figure of the Stuart portraits or of the Weems' fables. This made him so miserable that he wrote at least two unhappy love poems in a perfect welter of bad grammar and emotional tumult. In fact he was not a particularly good "catch"-and the Virginia girls let him realize it. He was never to become a fluent conversationalist, had not been educated in England and, comparatively speaking, was a poor young man. He was probably shy and awkward in the presence of Tidewater belles. “George Washington was in love with one girl after another during his youth, but for some reason he was unsuccessful in all these early courtships.
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