Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOUR CHARADES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Me you often meet / in london's crowded street
Last Line: Though he may have the temper and meekness of a lamb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Two Engimas: 2
Subject(s): Friendship


Me you often meet
In London's crowded street,
And merry children's voices my resting-place proclaim.
Pictures and prose and verse
Compose me -- I rehearse
Evil and good and folly, and call each by its name.
I make men glad, and I
Can bid their senses fly,
And festive echoes know me of Isis and of Cam.
But give me to a friend,
And amity will end,
Though he may have the temper and meekness of a lamb.





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