Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids | ||||||||
Why have you come, O love, so near, Come but to pass me by? I sought you not, but found you here; Turn hence your trifling eye. And in your vagrant wandering, Pray take some other path; Your talkit is but maundering To rouse contempt and wrath. Forever on some changing quest, With manners quite too gay, You are a fickle-minded guest. What's that? You've come to stay? I don't believe a word you say; You said the same another day; I know your tricks: go way; go way; Whenever did you come to stay? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF A SPINSTER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM SOME FOREIGN LETTERS by ANNE SEXTON PASSPORT BLUES by MALCOLM COWLEY A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY MY AUNT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES MEZZO CAMMIN by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 87 CASA GRANDE by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL |
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