HURRAH! the Season's past at last; At length we've 'done' our pleasure. Dear 'Pater,' if you only knew How much I've longed for home and you, -- Our own green lawn and leisure! And then the pets! One half forgets The dear dumb friends -- in Babel. I hope my special fish is fed; -- I long to see poor Nigra's head Pushed at me from the stable! I long to see the cob and 'Rob,' -- Old Bevis and the Collie; And won't we read in 'Traveller's Rest!' Home readings after all are best; -- None else seem half so 'jolly!' One misses your dear kindly store Of fancies quaint and funny; One misses, too, your kind bon-mot; -- The Mayfair wit I mostly know Has more of gall than honey! How tired one grows of 'calls and balls!' This 'toujours perdrix' wearies; I'm longing, quite, for 'Notes on Knox'; (Apropos, I've the loveliest box For holding Notes and Queries!) A change of place would suit my case. You'll take me? -- on probation? As 'Lady-help,' then, let it be; I feel (as Lavender shall see), That Jams are my vocation! How's Lavender? My love to her. Does Briggs still flirt with Flowers? -- Has Hawthorn stubbed the common clear? -- You'll let me give some picnics, Dear, And ask the Vanes and Towers? I met Belle Vane. 'HE'S' still in Spain! Sir John won't let them marry. Aunt drove the boys to Brompton Rink; And Charley, -- changing Charley, -- think, Is now au mieux with Carry! And NO. You know what 'No' I mean -- There's no one yet at present: The Benedick I have in view Must be a something wholly new, -- One's father's far too pleasant. So hey, I say, for home and you! Good-bye to Piccadilly; Balls, beaux, and Bolton-row, adieu! Expect me, Dear, at half-past two; Till then, -- your Own Fond -- MILLY. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPIGRAM: EHEU FUGACES by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM KUBLA KHAN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE BEN BOLT by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH HAWTHORNE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ENVOY: 2. TO MY MOTHER by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SATIRE: 3 by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS PROLOGUE TO DRAMA ..... ANNIVERSARY OF CARRS' MARRIAGE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SONNET TO NICHOLAS BLACKLEECH OF GRAYES INNE by RICHARD BARNFIELD |