Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES WRITTEN FOR A BLANK PAGE OF 'THE KEEPSAKE', by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, there's fragrance in your sighs, / and sunlight in your glances Last Line: And dance with me next season. Subject(s): Flirtation; Women | ||||||||
Lady, there's fragrance in your sighs, And sunlight in your glances; I never saw such lips and eyes In pictures or romances; And Love will readily suppose, To make you quite enslaving, That you have taste for verse and prose, Hot pressed, and line engraving. And then, you waltz so like a Fay, That round you envy rankles; Your partner's head is turned, they say As surely as his ankles; And I was taught, in days far gone, By a most prudent mother, That in this world of sorrow, one Good turn deserves another. I may not win you! -- that's a bore! But yet 'tis sweet to woo you; And for this cause, -- and twenty more, I send this gay book to you. If its songs please you, -- by this light! I will not hold it treason To bid you dream of me to-night, And dance with me next season. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV GOOD-NIGHT TO THE SEASON by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED |
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