AND when I so long, so long had delay'd, In foreign lands had in reveries stay'd, My loved one found it too long to wait, And sew'd herself a wedding-dress straight, And then embraced in her arms, willy-nilly, As bridegroom, the youth in the world the most silly. My loved one is so beauteous and soft, Before me still hovers her image oft; Her rosy cheeks, her violet eyes That all the year round glow bright as the skies. That I could fly from such charming attractions Was the silliest far of my silliest actions. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOUTH AND AGE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI EPISTLE TO WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ. .. BILL ABOLISHING SLAVE TRADE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE LITTLE OLD WOMEN; TO VICTOR HUGO by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE HAWTHORN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN SONNET ON HEARING A THRUSH SING IN JANUARY by ROBERT BURNS REST by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT |