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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DRESDEN SHEPHERDESS, by ALANSON BIGELOW HOUGHTON First Line: Ah! You are fair, I must confess Last Line: (ah! You are fair.) | |||
AH! you are fair, I must confess, My pretty, blue-eyed shepherdess, -- Too fair, alas! not to adore; And yet, though wooed for years a score, You still refuse me a caress. But in that dainty, charming dress You seem too sweet to e'er distress A lover's heart -- (list, I implore!) Ah! you are fair. Who could believe you pitiless? That laughing pout, that wanton tress Proclaim you true. Can I say more? Ah me! I knew you well of yore, And -- now adieu, fair shepherdess! (Ah! you are fair.) | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FRUIT GARDEN PATH by AMY LOWELL DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE THESE ENDURE by MARION H. ADDINGTON THE PROEM. TO LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |
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