Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A LADY COMES TO AN INN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH


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First Line: Three strange men came to the inn
Last Line: Has forgotten those men and that beautiful bride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


Three strange men came to the inn,
One was a black man pocked and thin,
One was brown with a silver knife,
And one brought with him a beautiful wife.

That lovely woman had hair as pale
As French champagne or finest ale,
That lovely woman was long and slim
As a young white birch or a maple limb.

Her face was like cream, her mouth was a rose,
What language she spoke nobody knows,
But sometimes she'd scream like a cockatoo
And swear wonderful oaths that nobody knew.

Her great silk skirts like a silver bell
Down to her little bronze slippers fell,
And her low-cut gown showed a dove on its nest
In blue tattooing across her breast.

Nobody learned the lady's name
Nor the marvellous land from which they came,
But no one in all the countryside
Has forgotten those men and that beautiful bride.





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