Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY PRETTY NEIGHBOR, by ? WEGENER First Line: If you've nothing, dear, to tell me Last Line: Pretty little neighbor, say! Subject(s): Love; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
IF you've nothing, dear, to tell me, Why, each morning passing by, With your sudden smiles compel me, To adore you, then repel me, Pretty little neighbor, why? Why if you have naught to tell me, Do you so my patience try? If you've nothing sweet to teach me, Tell me why you press my hand? I'll attend if you'll impeach me Of my sins, or even preach me Sermons hard to understand; But if you have naught to teach me, Dear, your meaning I demand! If you wish me, love, to leave you, Why forever walk my way? Then, when gladly I receive you, Wherefore do I seem to grieve you? Must I then, in truth, believe you Wish me, darling, far away? Do you wish me, love, to leave you? Pretty little neighbor, say! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS TWENTY QUESTIONS by DAVID LEHMAN THE MISTAKEN MOTH by ? WEGENER |
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