Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DETERMINATION, by WILLIAM CLYDE FITCH


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First Line: Did you ever love a maid
Last Line: Seems to tempt me, I shall steal from her a kiss!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fitch, Clyde
Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation


DID you ever love a maid
Who called herself quite staid,
And said you must not hold her hand or seize it?
Whose smile was yet so sweet,
And whose pretty hand petite
Just filled you with a mad desire to squeeze it?

One whose rosy little cheek
Seemed to bid you come and seek
What the pouting, dainty lips forbade you?
Whose sparkling, dancing eye
Seemed daring you to try,
Till you had a wild desire to, -- say, had you?

I will own I am in love
With a maiden as above,
And I'll tell you now a secret, -- it is this:
Next time the pretty creature
With every piquant feature
Seems to tempt me, I shall steal from her a kiss!





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