Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode Last Line: And she didn't seem just to well, you understand! Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness | ||||||||
THERE'S a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode Is at number some hundreds in Sheridan Road, And the peach-and-cream lassies who live thereabout Trip by in gay dresses with many a flout, And giggle and whisper they're "really afraid" This time-tempered lady will die an "old maid"! Great heavens! just think what a terrible fate To live and to die a forlorn celibate! Now, the worst of all this is the evident truth That this "lone" maiden lady keeps much of her youth, Seems ever contented and never to fret, And laughs and is gay as if free from regret! There are men at her elbow and men at her feet, And men in fine turn-outs wait out in the street; But, alas! this poor lady will certainly grow Much older, and she is unmarried, you know! Too bad! 'T is a pity! She's such a nice girl Or spinster a man must, indeed, be a churl Who would fail to discover her beauty and charm! Still, the oddest of all is she shows no alarm For this horrible fate that impends can it be That she'd rather not marry? She said so to me This is quite confidential: I asked for her hand And she didn't seem just to well, you understand! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES A BACHELOR'S VALENTINE by RAY CLARKE ROSE |
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