Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POLLY PERKINS, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "I am a broken - hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed" Last Line: It was a bow - legged conductor of a twopenny bus Subject(s): Grief;love;marriage; Sorrow;sadness;weddings;husbands;wives | ||||||||
I am a broken-hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed, Through keeping of the company of a young servant maid, Who lived on board wages to keep the house clean In a gentleman's family near Paddington Green. Chorus She was as beautiful as a butterfly And as proud as a Queen Was pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green. Her eyes were as black as the pips of a pear, No rose in the garden with her cheeks could compare, Her hair hung in ringlets so beautiful and long, I thought that she loved me but I found I was wrong. * * * When I asked her to marry me she said Oh! what stuff, And told me to drop it, for she had quite enough Of my nonsense -- at the same time I'd been very kind, But to marry a milkman she did not feel inclined. Oh, the man that has me must have silver and gold, A chariot to ride in and be handsome and bold, His hair must be curly as any watch spring, And his whiskers as long as a brush for clothing. * * * In six months she married, this hard-hearted girl, But it was not a wicount, and it was not a nearl, It was not a baronite, but a shade or two wuss, It was a bow-legged conductor of a Twopenny Bus. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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