Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A GAME-RHYME, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "water, water, wall-flower" Last Line: A-dancing for your sake Subject(s): Single People; Bachelors;unmarried People | ||||||||
WATER, water wall-flower, Growing up so high, We are all maidens, We must all die. All except Mary Ann, She is the whitest flower: She can skip, and she can sing, And ding us, ding us ower! A dis, a dis o' green grass A daisy dis, a dis! Come, all ye pretty maidens. And dance along with this. And you shall have a duck so blue, And you shall have a drake, And you shall have a pretty young man A-dancing for your sake. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ODD WOMAN by MADELINE DEFREES THE RIVALS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COUNSEIL TO A BACHELER by MARIANNE MOORE MY KIND OF MAN by ANNE WALDMAN THE TWO OLD BACHELORS by EDWARD LEAR THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE A CONSISTENT GIRL by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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