Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIS ARGUMENT, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poet's Biography First Line: One time I wooed a maid (dear is she yet!) Last Line: And lay thy long, soft locks where my heart is. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Courtship; Love | ||||||||
ONE time I wooed a maid (dear is she yet!) All in the revel eye of young Love's moon. Content she made me,ah, my dimpling mate, My Springtime girl, who walked with flower-shoon! But near me, nearer, steals a deep-eyed maid With creeping glance that sees and will not see, And blush that would those yea-sweet eyes upbraid, O, might I woo her nor inconstant be! But is not Autumn dreamtime of the Spring? (Yon scarlet fruit-bell is a flower asleep;) And I am not forsworn if yet I keep Dream-faith with Spring in Autumn's deeper kiss. Then so, brown maiden, take this true-love ring, And lay thy long, soft locks where my heart is. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD THE PATH-FLOWER by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN |
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