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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A NANKIN PLATE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me, but it might have been!
Last Line: Quoth the little blue mandarin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
First Line: Ah me, but it might have been!
Last Line: Quoth the little blue mandarin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
'AH me, but it might have been!
Was there ever so dismal a fate?' --
Quoth the little blue mandarin.
'Such a maid as was never seen!
She passed, tho' I cried to her "Wait," --
Ah me, but it might have been!
'I cried, "O my Flower, my Queen,
Be mine!" 'Twas precipitate,' --
Quoth the little blue mandarin, --
'But then ... she was just sixteen, --
Long-eyed, -- as a lily straight, --
Ah me, but it might have been!
'As it was, from her palankeen,
She laughed -- "You're a week too late!"'
(Quoth the little blue mandarin.)
'That is why, in a mist of spleen,
I mourn on this Nankin Plate.
Ah me, but it might have been!' --
Quoth the little blue mandarin.
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