My Johnny is left me and gone to the sea, I mourn for the absence of his company, My parents was rich, and they did him despise, And they advised me to do so likewise. Alas! he has gone the wide world to range, And were he but here now, my mind would soon change, For sleeping and waking, I'm never at rest, To think on my Johnny my mind's sore oppress'd. My love he is handsome in every degree, Good natur'd and sober was his company, He is voic'd like a blackbird, and eyed like a dove, He is every way handsome the man that I love. And dearly I lov'd him, as I lov'd my life, Although 'tis decreed that I am not his wife, Yet he has my heart in his bosom secure, We are all born to troubles, I must that endure. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG TO MITHRAS by RUDYARD KIPLING ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 74 by PHILIP SIDNEY A BURIAL-PLACE by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM PSALM 51 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE LOLA WEARS LACE by HELEN BIRCH-BARTLETT |