Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BACHELOR GIRL, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the bachelor girl Last Line: Long lifeand happy days! Subject(s): Independence; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People | ||||||||
HERE'S to the Bachelor Girl Who fain her charms would cloister. She is a precious pearl That will not leave the oyster. She is a proud sweet-pea That scorns to be a vine, And lean upon a tree Or round a stick entwine. "What! lean upon a stick! Oh, no! I'm not that sort I will grow branches thick And be my own support!" Beware, O pearl of price, Lest you be cast to swine; O proud sweet-pea, think twice Ere you refuse to twine! O Bachelor Girl, we drink Confusion to your plan; Beware, lest Fate shall link You to a Spinster Man! O change, ere 'tis too late, The Choker tall and silly, The tweedsthe hat we hate, For something soft and frilly! Take off the stockings blue, (We will avert our gaze), Then will we drink to you Long lifeand happy days! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ODD WOMAN by MADELINE DEFREES THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER by MARIANNE MOORE MY KIND OF MAN by ANNE WALDMAN THE TWO OLD BACHELORS by EDWARD LEAR THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE A CONSISTENT GIRL by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS LIMERICK by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD |
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