Come hither my sparrows My little arrows If a tear or a smile Will a man beguile If an amorous delay Clouds a sunshiny day If the step of a foot Smites the heart to its root Tis the marriage ring Makes each fairy a king So a fairy sung From the leaves I sprung He leapd from the spray To flee away But in my hat caught He soon shall be taught Let him laugh let him cry Hes my butterfly For I've pulld out the Sting Of the marriage ring | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WEEDS by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A SPINNING SONG by JOHN FRANCIS O'DONNELL HERE ENTER NOT by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON ON FILE by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS ALONG SHORE by HERBERT BASHFORD |