The Jack of Spades and the Queen o' Clubs Walked one night on the promenade deck, While the King played poker Down below in the smoker, Putting up blues to win a white check; For his luck was poor and the King dismayed,— But little knew he that the Jack sashayed Arm in arm to and fro with the Queen up above, A-squeezin' of her hand and tellin' of his love! Says the Jack to the Queen, "You're my all in all; We must ever stick together tho' the heavens fall." "There's but one thing to part us," She lamented with a blush, "We couldn't stick together In a Royal Flush." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE CITY OF COLOGNE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE JOURNEY by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY NEW HEAVEN, NEW WAR by ROBERT SOUTHWELL LILIES: 8 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: ECLOGUE by WILLIAM BASSE LARABELLE; CANTO FOURTH by LEVI BISHOP ANGER AND WRATH by WILLIAM BLAKE ON HIS ENGAGEMENT TO BE MARRIED by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |