Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LAMP AND THE GUITAR, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH


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First Line: My love, she lives in salamanca
Last Line: Copy luisa—love all spain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Sparrows; Women


MY love, she lives in Salamanca
All up a dozen flights of stairs;
There with the sparrows night and morning
Under the roof she chirps her prayers.
They say her wisdom comes from heaven—
So near the clouds and chimneys meet—
I rather think Luisa's sparrows
Fetch it aloft there from the street!

What would you have? In la Verdura
All the day long she keeps a stall:
Students, bachelors buy her nosegays,
Given with a look and—well that's all!
King of her love, with no Prime Minister,
Lord of an attic blithe I'd reign,
But ay de mi! from here to Finisterre
Pretty Luisa loves all Spain.

Pretty Luisa's democratic:
Every peseta wears its crown.
What is it worth to rent an attic
If on the world you don't look down?
Go, silly boy, believe you first with her—
Twenty at once she'll entertain.
Why love a mistress and be curst with her?
Copy Luisa—love all Spain!





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