Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send to you, commissioners Last Line: O' you mysel'. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers | ||||||||
I SEND to you, commissioners, A paper that may please ye, sirs, (For troth they say it might be worse An' I believe't) And on your business lay my curse Before I leav't. I thocht I'd serve wi' you, sirs, yince, But I've thocht better of it since, The maitter I will nowise mince, But tell ye true: I'll service wi' some ither prince, An' no' wi' you. I've no' been very deep, ye'll think, Cam' delicately to the brink An' when the water gart me shrink Straucht took the rue, An' didna stoop my fill to drink -- I own it true. I kennt on cape and isle, a light Burnt fair an' clearly ilka night; But at the service I took fright, As sune's I saw, An' being still a neophite Gaed straucht awa'. Anither course I now begin, The weeg I'll cairry for my sin, The court my voice shall echo in, An' -- wha can tell? -- Some ither day I may be yin O' you mysel'. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTHWELL: PART 4 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN IN PHARAOH'S TOMB by HAYDEN CARRUTH JUSTICE LISTENS AT THE GATES OF BEAUTY by AIME CESAIRE FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE MY SISTER, THE QUEEN by EDWARD FIELD L,ENVOI: IN OUR TIME by ERNEST HEMINGWAY VASHTI by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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