Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SPOILED MAN, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE


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A SPOILED MAN, by                    
First Line: Rose has left me alone in this library corner
Last Line: Now for the tea!
Subject(s): Love


ROSE has left me alone in this library corner,
With the last magazine, and orders to smoke;
But I can't relish even the latest of Warner,
Or laugh at a joke.

I, who once waited for weeks without seeing
Rose, who is near me now day after day,
Find myself all out of tune at her being
An hour away.

This story, she's sure to ask if I've read it;
I'd much rather not, but I promised I would:
Very likely the hero's perfection, she said it
Would do me good.

Read of devotion now when I am giving it
All to the Rose who shall be my wife?
Read of love when one is having it, living it
In one's life?
Hark! That's her waltz that somebody's humming
Down the long hallway; ah, surely, I hear
Her footstep, the swing of her gown! she is coming, --
Is here!
. . . . .
Before I tell you, dear, how I have missed you,
I'll finish this verse -- find a rhyme for me;
Well, just to have done with, we'll end it in "Kissed you;"
Now for the tea!





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