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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER LITTLE FEET, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her little feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Feet
Last Line: Her little feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Feet
HER little feet! . . . Beneath us ranged the sea,
She sat, from sun and wind umbrella-shaded,
One shoe above the other danglingly,
And lo! a Something exquisitely graded,
Brown rings and white, distracting -- to the knee!
The band was loud. A wild waltz melody
Flowed rhythmic forth. The nobodies paraded.
And thro' my dream went pulsing fast and free:
Her little feet.
Till she made room for some one. It was He!
A port-wine flavored He, a He who traded,
Rich, rosy, round, obese to a degree!
A sense of injury overmastered me.
Quite bulbously his ample boots upbraided
Her little feet.
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