Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO ENIGMAS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Name any gentlemen you spy
Last Line: Forth from the sanctuary of home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): New Enigmas
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Home; Wandering & Wanderers


Name any gentleman you spy,
And there's a chance that he is I;
Go out to an angle, and you may
Catch me on a propitious day:
Booted and spurred, their journey ended,
The weary are by me befriended:
If roasted meat should be your wish,
I am more needful than a dish:
I am acknowledgedly poor:
Yet my resources are no fewer
Than all the trades; there is not one
But I profess, beneath the sun:
I bear a part in many a game;
My worth may change, I am the same.
Sometimes, by you expelled, I roam
Forth from the sanctuary of home.





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