Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poet Analysis First Line: I loved a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) Last Line: I learned the maiden some one else had married! Subject(s): Courtship; Language; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Time; Words; Vocabulary | ||||||||
I LOVED a maid (oh, she was fair of face!) But common words above Was my true love So I was silent for a little space Yet, 'gainst the day I meant that she should hear me, I sought for stately words that might endear me. My ardent lips, I vowed, should not repeat What countless lovers swear: "Oh, thou art fair!" I scorned to merely say, "I love thee, Sweet!" So spent long days with rhetoric and tutor, In framing sentences I dreamed might suit her. Oh, how I pondered what she best might hear! Words should like jewels shine To make her mine No commonplaces must offend her ear: But while for proper words my passion tarried I learned the maiden some one else had married! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER AFFAIRE D'AMOUR by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND |
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