@3Her Word@1 I didn't like the way he went away. That smile! It never came of being gay. Still he smiled -- did you see him? -- I was sure! Perhaps because we gave him only bread And the wretch knew from that that we were poor. Perhaps because he let us give instead Of seizing from us as he might have seized. Perhaps he mocked as us for being wed, Or being very young (and he was pleased To have a vision of us old and dead). I wonder how far down the road he's got. He's watching from the woods as like as not. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE OPEN COUNTRY by DOROTHY PARKER EPITAPH: IN OBITUM M.S. XO MAIJ, 1614 by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) THE VOYAGE by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON EPITAPH ON CHARLES II by JOHN WILMOT UPON THE SAME by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN by JOSEPH BEAUMONT THE LAST MAN: ANTICIPATION OF EVIL TIDINGS by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |