Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VERSES TO MISS --, by J. WILDE


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First Line: From six o'clock I traversed to and fro
Last Line: Though all this stuff laid somewhere in my head.
Subject(s): Greyhounds; Writing & Writers


FROM six o'clock I traversed to and fro,
Oft stopped confounded, knew not where to go,
Then gazed around; the evening was quite mild,
But had you seen me you'd have thought me wild.
I envied then the slow hound his fine scent,
Which had I got, I'd smelt the way you went:
But greyhound-like I only run by sight,
And you like lightning sure had ta'en your flight.
I never could behold one trace you made,
And sure you did not go there as you said.

But don't you think it was a dang'rous way
For me to walk with disappointment, pray?
Thanks to the brook, it covered but the ground,
Or I, perhaps, might have leaped in and drowned:
And this, indeed, might be the thing you meant;
But, if 'twas yours, it was not my intent.
So home I came, went quietly to bed,
Got a sound sleep, indeed, indeed I did,
Though all this stuff laid somewhere in my head.





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