Love on a day (wise Poets tell) Some time in wrangling spent, Whether the Violets sho'd excell, Or she, in sweetest scent. But Venus having lost the day, Poore Girles, she fell on you And beat ye so, (as some dare say) Her blowes did make ye blew. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SOLDIER LISTENS by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER THE WISTFUL DAYS by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 83 by ALFRED TENNYSON WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR by WALT WHITMAN |