YOU leap and twist, you skip and flop, You bound and reach and wriggle, And as you hear your raiment crack, You hear the girlies giggle. The perspiration floods your face, Your hands and arms are cooking— And as you struggle down the court, A mocking world is looking! You miss the ball incessantly— Your name is changed to Dennis— You realize that you are just An awful mark at tennis! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HER LIKENESS by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK TO ONE IN BEDLAM by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON KATHLEEN O'MORE by GEORGE NUGENT REYNOLDS VERSES DESIGNED TO BE SENT TO MR. ADAMS by ELIZABETH FRANCES AMHERST PSALM 86 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALMS OF THE SEA: THE CONVERT by EVERETT BOSTON |