Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO ENIGMAS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name any gentlemen you spy Last Line: Forth from the sanctuary of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): New Enigmas Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Home; Wandering & Wanderers | ||||||||
Name any gentleman you spy, And there's a chance that he is I; Go out to an angle, and you may Catch me on a propitious day: Booted and spurred, their journey ended, The weary are by me befriended: If roasted meat should be your wish, I am more needful than a dish: I am acknowledgedly poor: Yet my resources are no fewer Than all the trades; there is not one But I profess, beneath the sun: I bear a part in many a game; My worth may change, I am the same. Sometimes, by you expelled, I roam Forth from the sanctuary of home. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER: A ROCOCO STUDY (FIRST VERSION) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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