If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream Between us, milk-white Mistress, I would swim To you, to show to both my love's extreme, Leander-like, - yea! dive from brim to brim. But met I with a butter'd pippin-pie Floating upon't, that would I make my boat, To waft me to you without jeopardy: Though sea-sick I might be while it did float. Yet if a storm should rise, by night or day, Of sugar snows and hail of care-aways, Then, if I found a pancake in my way, It like a plank should bring me to your kays, Which having found, if they tobacco kept, The smoke should dry me well before I slept. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NO BABY IN THE HOUSE by CLARA G. DOLLIVER ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM by JOHN DRYDEN SMOKING SPIRITUALIZED by RALPH ERSKINE AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER by THOMAS HARDY UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN WINDSOR by HENRY HOWARD A BALLAD OF LIFE by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 10. TO THE MUSE by MARK AKENSIDE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: SONNET 24. BALCOMBE FOREST by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |