BEFORE our banns be published like a tax, Ask'd on the portals of St. Mary Axe, If thou wilt marry me -- then prythee tell -- Oh now -- or fare thee well! Think of old maids of seventy -- fourscore, Fourscore old women at the temple's door, Those that can read, and those that learn to spell -- Oh now -- or fare thee well! Suppose our names a history -- suppose Our love forepicked to pieces, like a rose Shed blushing all abroad -- my Isabel! Oh now -- or fare thee well!" -- THEODOSIUS. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY THE SABBATH LAMP by GRACE AGUILAR VACANT STALL by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY FOR THE MASTER'S SAKE by MINNIE MASON BEEBE THE AUTHOR OF 'THE GREAT ILLUSION' by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |