HERE'S to the Bachelor Girl Who fain her charms would cloister. She is a precious pearl That will not leave the oyster. She is a proud sweet-pea That scorns to be a vine, And lean upon a tree Or round a stick entwine. "What! lean upon a stick! Oh, no! I'm not that sort— I will grow branches thick And be my own support!" Beware, O pearl of price, Lest you be cast to swine; O proud sweet-pea, think twice Ere you refuse to twine! O Bachelor Girl, we drink Confusion to your plan; Beware, lest Fate shall link You to a Spinster Man! O change, ere 'tis too late, The Choker tall and silly, The tweeds—the hat we hate, For something soft and frilly! Take off the stockings blue, (We will avert our gaze), Then will we drink to you Long life—and happy days! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLADE OF DEAD FRIENDS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE WHITE SHIP by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE QUEEN'S RIDE; AN INVITATION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH IDYLL 3. THE TEACHER TAUGHT by BION SANCHO SANCHEZ by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT MEMORY AND HOPE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE QUIET WAYS by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928 by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY IN IMITATION OF A SONG IN THE PLAY OF ROLLO by CHARLES COTTON |