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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MANATON, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O it's manaton, little manaton, high over the moor
Last Line: For the want of her and manaton, and the long while ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
First Line: O it's manaton, little manaton, high over the moor
Last Line: For the want of her and manaton, and the long while ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
O IT'S Manaton, little Manaton, high over the Moor—
And I led my love to Manaton, and she twenty-four:
O I took my love to Manaton, and I twenty-five—
An' 'tis that's the pretty time-o'-life for young men to wive.
O 'twas walking back from Manaton, half-way to the Cleeve,
By the stones of Becky Waterfall my love touched my sleeve—
'Ah, to-day has been the honey-day if 'tweren't for the pain
That you and I and Manaton might ne'er meet again!'
O it's Manaton, little Manaton, bides there just the same:
But 'twas yesterday, to Manaton alone as I came,
That I turned in sight of Manaton, my heart moidered so
For the want of her and Manaton, and the long while ago.
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