Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN ACROSTIC, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL


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First Line: M ight I but speak what yearns my soul to say
Last Line: No siren tempts me from my mollie bright!
Subject(s): Flirtation; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations


Might I but speak what yearns my soul to say
And might I tell where my heart is given,
Remembrance would my darling thus portray—
Young, spotless—with a star-eyed face, like Heaven!

Glorious is she who thus is ever near me
In all my dreams, by day or in the night;
Repeat my vow, ye winged winds that hear me—
Vainly shall others flit before my sight,
I mpotent they, who flatter to endear me—
No siren tempts me from my Mollie bright!





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