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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GYPSY GIRL, by RALPH HODGSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen
Last Line: The darkness of her eyes!
Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Girl
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies
First Line: Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen
Last Line: The darkness of her eyes!
Variant Title(s): The Gipsy Girl
Subject(s): Gypsies; Gipsies
'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,
A penny for three tries!'
Some threw and lost, some threw and won
A ten-a-penny prize.
She was a tawny gipsy girl,
A girl of twenty years,
I liked her for the lumps of Id
That jingled from her ears;
I liked the flaring yellow scarf
Bound loose about her throat,
I liked her showy purple gown
And flashy velvet coat.
A man came up, too loose of tongue,
And said no good to her;
She did not blush as Saxons do,
Or turn upon the cur;
She fawned and whined 'Sweet gentleman,
A penny for three tries!'
—But oh, the den of wild things in
The darkness of her eyes!
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