One leaves his leaves at home One leaves his leaves at home beomg a mullen and sends up a lighthouse beomg a mullen and sends up a lighthouse to peer from: I will have my way, to peer from: I will have my way, yellow-A mast with a lantern, ten yellow-A mast with a lantern, ten fifty, a hundred, smaller and smaller fifty, a hundred, smaller and smaller as they grow more-Liar, liar, liar! as they grow more-Liar, liar, liar! You come from her! I can smell djer-kiss You come from her! I can smell djer-kiss on your clothes. Ha! you come to me, on your clothes. Ha! you come to me, you, I am a point of dew on a grass-stem. you, I am a point of dew on a grass-stem. Why are you sending heat down on me Why are you sending heat down on me from your lantern?-You are cowdung, a from your lantern?-You are cowdung, a dead stick with the bark off. She is dead stick with the bark off. She is squirting on us both. She has has her squirting on us both. She has has her hand on you!-well?-She has defiled hand on you!-well?-She has defiled ME.-Your leaves are dull, thick ME.-Your leaves are dull, thick and hairy.-Every hair on my body will and hairy.-Every hair on my body will hold you off from me. You are a hold you off from me. You are a dungcake, birdlime on a fencerail.- dungcake, birdlime on a fencerail.- I love you, straight, yellow I love you, straight, yellow finger of God pointing to-her! finger of God pointing to-her! Liar, broken weed, dungcake, you have- Liar, broken weed, dungcake, you have- I am a cricket waving his antennae I am a cricket waving his antennae and you are high, grey and straight. Ha! and you are high, grey and straight. Ha! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INVOCATION [TO LOVE] by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER THE SECRET OF THE WATERFALL by WILLIAM ROSE BENET NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 27 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 3 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |