O FRIEND, you have read it aright, Just as I meant that you should. I penned it in plain black and white, To be so and so understood. Yes, thus was it written, O friend, According to every law. I swear it, I did not intend A syllable save what you saw. 'T was all that I willed you to read— Resolved that but this should be seen. Yet God! what a different creed My mad thoughts wrote in between! So you read only just what you could; And the actual letter of all, Written with very heart's blood, Ah!—you never got it at all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON GOING UNNOTICED by ROBERT FROST ARMOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ON A YOUNG LADY'S SIXTH ANNIVERSARY by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DOMESDAY BOOK: LOVERIDGE CHASE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE RUSSIAN ARMY GOES INTO BAKU by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER |