Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S LOGIC, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "you ask me, my dear, in your innocent way" Last Line: "more constant and clear than the sheen of the skies, / and the color of heaven is blue" Subject(s): Courtship | ||||||||
YOU ask me, my dear, in your innocent way, Whether, from what I have seen, I should say Your soft eyes are green or are blue? For in green eyes, you premised, sly coquetry dwells, While the bonny blue eye ever certainly tells of tenderness trusting and true. Now, love, pray remember, although I have seen In those orbs quite perceptible sparkles of green, That some one is writing to you Whose whole heaven lies in the light of your eyes, More constant and clear than the sheen of the skies, And the color of heaven is blue. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AS YOU WALK OUT ONE MORNING by GLYN MAXWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON MARJORIE'S WOOING by EMMA LAZARUS THE FORTUNATE SPILL by MARILYN NELSON REQUEST TO LEDA by DYLAN THOMAS TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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