I WANT three days to read the Iliad through! So, Corydon, close fast my chamber door. If anything should bother me before I've done, I swear you'll have somewhat to rue! No! not the servant, nor your mate, nor you Shall come to make the bed or clean the floor. I must have three good quiet days -- or four. Then I'll make merry for a week or two. Ah! but -- if any one should come from HER, Admit him quickly! Be no loiterer, But come and make me brave for his receiving. But no one else! -- not friends or nearest kin! Though an Olympian God should seek me, leaving His Heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862] by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 82 by ALFRED TENNYSON KITTY NEIL by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER DECORATION DAY PRAYER by ARTHUR ROSZELLE BEMIS JR. THE DAUGHTER by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS |