'WOULD it had been the man of our wish!' Sighs her mother. To whom with vehemence she In the wedding-dress - the wife to be - 'Then why were you so mollyish As not to insist on him for me!' The mother, amazed: 'Why, dearest one, Because you pleaded for this or none!' 'But Father and you should have stood out strong! Since then, to my cost, I have lived to find That you were right and that I was wrong; This man is a dolt to the one declined.... Ah! - here he comes with his button-hole rose. Good God - I must marry him I suppose!' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SHRINE OF VENUS by ANTIPATER OF SIDON HIS HEART, INTO A BIRD by PHILIP AYRES SOME ACCOUNT OF A NEW PLAY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE KEEPING-ROOM by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL by WILLIAM E. BROOKS AN EVENING REVERY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT GUILTY by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, BOTH IN BIRTH AND VIRTUE, EARL OF CUMBERLAND by THOMAS CAMPION |