Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRISCILLA, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Priscilla in the garret loft Last Line: "ah, sir! Because they will not bear / another dyeing." Subject(s): Boredom; Ennui | ||||||||
PRISCILLA in the garret loft Of rare old silks and velvets soft A heap espying, -- Forgotten hues of a by-gone day! -- The little maid in deft array Carefully folds and lays away With envious sighing. Did they some rustic beauty grace, A comely form and winsome face, With footsteps flying? Or does she sigh because a bride They once adorned; now cast aside, Left in the garret there to hide, The dust defying? Perchance her great-grandmother wore Them hundred years ago and more -- Priscilla's crying! "Come little maid, why this despair? What makes those big tears standing there?" "Ah, sir! because they will not bear Another dyeing." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES by AMY LOWELL THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL by JOHN ASHBERY THE DREAM SONGS: 14 by JOHN BERRYMAN TWO OF A KIND by WALTER TALLMADGE ARNDT THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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