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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BALLADE OF COLLEGE GIRLS, by F. R. BATCHELDER First Line: What do the dear girls learn nowadays Last Line: I have been there, -- but I won't tell! Subject(s): Sex; Universities & Colleges | |||
WHAT do the dear girls learn nowadays, At all the colleges where they go? They've no cane-rushes nor football frays; Whence can their wealth of wisdom flow? Up at Wellesley they learn to row; Gowns and mortar-boards there are swell; They flirt in the shades of "Tupelo": I have been there, -- but I won't tell! The Smith girls had the dramatic craze, And even the critics puffed their show; The Amherst men are loud in their praise; They diet on pickled limes and Poe. At good Mount Holyoke, which some deem slow, They learn to cook and to sweep as well; Along with their Greek they're taught to sew: I have been there, -- but I won't tell! Cornell's "co-eds" have flattering ways; Many a soul they have filled with woe; Up at Vassar they're prone to stays, And no girl there can have a beau; All those beautiful blooms must throw Their sweetness away where no man may dwell; Rules can be cheated, sometimes, though: I have been there, -- but I won't tell! ENVOY. Girls, the Blue and the Crimson know How a tryst is kept after bedtime bell. "Hush-sh," you whisper, "be cautious!" Oh, I have been there, -- but I won't tell! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAMPUS SONNET: MAY MORNING by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET CAMPUS SONNET: RETURN - 1917 by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET CAMPUS SONNET: TALK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION by JOHN CIARDI A PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE by ALBERT GOLDBARTH KENT STATE, MAY 1970 by JOHN HAINES TO A VISITING POET IN A COLLEGE DORMITORY by CAROLYN KIZER BACCALAUREATE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH TO MY HONORED FRIEND SIR ROBERT HOWARD by JOHN DRYDEN ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
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