"You on the tower of my factory -- What do you see up there? Do you see Enjoyment with wide wings Advancing to reach me here?" -- "Yea; I see Enjoyment with wide wings Advancing to reach you here." "Good. Soon I'll come and ask you To tell me again thereon. . . . Well, what is he doing now? Hoi, there!" -- "He still is flying on." "Ah, waiting till I have full-finished. Good. Tell me again anon. . . . Hoi, Watchman! I'm here. When comes he? Between my sweats I am chill." -- "Oh, you there, asking still? Why, surely he reached you a time back, And took you miles from your mill? He duly came in his winging, And now he has passed out of view. How can it be that you missed him? He brushed you by as he flew." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UP IN THE MORNING EARLY by ROBERT BURNS SUMMER LONGINGS by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY LOVE'S WISDOM by ALFRED AUSTIN THE DESCENT OF TIMOTHY by JAMES HAY BEATTIE CONCERT PARTY: BUSSEBOOM by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN DESERTED DERRICK by MARY ELIZABETH BRANTLEY EPIGRAM ON ONE BORN BLIND, AND SO DEAD by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) THE NURSE AND THE NEWSPAPER; AN OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE by ELIZABETH COBBOLD |