Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SUITOR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: My automobile loves the saintly wood
Last Line: Against the woodland's closed, inviolate shrine?
Subject(s): Automobiles; Forests; Cars; Woods


My automobile loves the saintly wood;
But his hot heart, his wild and throbbing heart,
Enamored of her quiet, better good,
Knows well that in it all he has no part.

He plunges boldly through her gentle ways,
He seeks to please, to flatter and cajole,
But evermore, in shrinking, sad amaze,
She turns from him the secrets of her soul.

How shall he learn the sunlight's calm caress,
The birds' dear notes, the grace of tree and vine?
Must he forever vainly pray and press
Against the woodland's closed, inviolate shrine?





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