Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MRS. LEIGH UPON HER WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE CANNING Poet's Biography First Line: While all to this auspicious day Last Line: Not wear herself, the breeches. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
WHILE all to this auspicious day Well pleased their heartfelt homage pay And sweetly smile and softly say A hundred civic speeches; My Muse shall strike her tuneful strings, Nor scorn the gift her duty brings, Tho' humble be the theme she sings, A pair of shooting breeches. Soon shall the tailor's subtle art Have made them tight, and spruce, and smart, And fastened well in every part With twenty thousand stitches; Mark then the moral of my song, Oh, may your lives but prove as strong, And wear as well, and last as long, As these, my shooting breeches. And when, to ease the load of life, Of private care, and public strife, My lot shall give to me a wife, I ask not rank or riches; For worth like thine alone I pray, Temper like thine serene and gay, And formed like thee to give away, Not wear herself, the breeches. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER by GEORGE CANNING |
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