IN cap and gown I saw her go, -- The daintiest sight the world could show; The cap aslant with mocking air, The gown blown lightly here and there, -- I watched her with my heart aglow. Throughout the passing centuries slow, In many garbs, maids come and go. Sweet souls! they had been twice as fair In cap and gown. O Grecian girls in robes of snow, O satin belles of long ago, However gay your dress, or fair, I tell you ye could not compare With the new maid ye cannot know, -- In cap and gown. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOUNTAIN WATER by SARA TEASDALE A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS IN PRAISE OF ASTRAEA by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ON PLOUGHING by EVELYN D. BANGAY S. GREGORIE NAZIANZEN by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |