One day one young Creole candio, Mo' fineh dan sho nuf white beau, Kip all de time meckin' feee -- "Swithawt, meck merrie wid me." "Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie, me. Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie." I go teck walk in wood close by; But Creole tek' sem road, and try All time, all time, to meck free -- "Swithawt, meck merrie wid me." "Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie, me. Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie." But him slide roun' an' roun' dis chile, Tell, jis' fo' sheck 'im off lill while, Me, I was bleedze fo' say, "Shoo! If I'll meck merrie wid you? O, yass, I ziss leave meck merrie me; Yass, seh, I ziss leave meck merrie." You-alls w'at laugh at me so well, I wish you'd knowed dat Creole swell, Wid all 'is swit, smilin' trick. 'Pon my soul! you'd done say, quick, "O, yass, I ziss leave meck merrie, me; Yass, seh, I ziss leave meck merrie." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORABILIA by ROBERT BROWNING HER MERRIMENT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES TO ONE IN BEDLAM by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON HAIL COLUMBIA by JOSEPH HOPKINSON THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE PLUMPUPPETS by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY EPISTLE FROM ONE ABSENT EDITOR TO ANOTHER by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |