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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DELIA VERY ANGRY, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Poh! Did ever one see such a troublesome bear? Last Line: "may you call me a fool, sir, as long as I live! / do you think one has nothing to do but forgive?" Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency | |||
POH! did ever one see such a troublesome bear? No, I will not get up from my seat now, I swear. Lord! what can you mean by this pulling and teasing? Sure, there's nothing so bad as a man without reason! Come, prithee be quiet! For God's sake! See there! Why, you spoil all my work and all tousle my hair. You know it as well as myself do, or Nanny, That this gown must be fitted by four.Christ! how can ye? It has put me already quite into a flurry. Shuh! how can you do so, when one's in a hurry? It came but this morning, you saw it brought in: Not an hour ago I had scarce stuck a pin. 'Tis for passionate Mary, the minister's maid. When she gave me the stuff, did you hear what she said? What wishes she wished, and what oaths too she took, That she'd roast me to death (and you know she's a cook) If I was not precisely as good as my word: For she goes to a burying.Devil take ye!O Lord! Now, aren't you ashamed? Well, observe what I say: If I speak t' ye again for six months (mark the day!), May you call me a fool, sir, as long as I live! Do you think one has nothing to do but forgive? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FORGIVING MY FATHER by LUCILLE CLIFTON WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD by DORIANNE LAUX THE MAN WITH THE HOE OUTWITTED by EDWIN MARKHAM SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS LEAVING CHURCH EARLY by JOHN UPDIKE TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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