Stay, goddess! stay a little space, Our poor country love to grace, Since we dare not too long stay you, Accept at our hands, we pray you, These mean presents, to express Greater love than we profess, Or can we utter now for woe Of your parting hastened so. Gifts these are, such as were wrought By their hands that them have brought, Home-bred things, which they presumed, After I had them perfumed With my flowery incantation, To give you in presentation At your parting. Come, feat lassies, With fine curtsies, and smooth faces, Offer up your simple toys To the mistress of our joys; While we the sad time prolong With a mournful parting song. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FISHERMAN IN SONGKHLA by KAREN SWENSON WATERS OF BABYLON by LOUIS UNTERMEYER TO A YOUNG BEAUTY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS MINIVER CHEEVY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862] by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 37. LOVE'S MY POLE-STAR by PHILIP AYRES THE LAURELS ARE FELLED by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE |