Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MR. COGGS, WATCHMAKER, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poet's Biography First Line: A watch will tell the time of day Last Line: He'll make his gold repeater chime. Subject(s): Repairing; Watches; Mending | ||||||||
A watch will tell the time of day, Or tell it nearly, anyway, Excepting when it's overwound, Or when you drop it on the ground. If any of our watches stop, We haste to Mr. Coggs's shop; For though to scold us he pretends He's quite among our special friends. He fits a dice box in his eye, And takes a long and thoughtful spy, And prods the wheels, and says: "dear, dear! More carelessness I greatly fear." And then he lays the dice box down And frowns a most prodigious frown; But if we ask him what's the time, He'll make his gold repeater chime. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A YARD-FENCE AND FLOWER-BEDS by DELLA MCDANIEL NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND; EPIGRAM by JOHN GODFREY SAXE PATENT APPLIED FOR by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS ANTICIPATIONS by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS FRIENDS by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS THE BARBER by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS |
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