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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MABEL, IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest of the fairest, rival of the rose Last Line: But what's the use of telling what everybody knows? | |||
FAIREST of the fairest, rival of the rose, That is Mabel of the Hills, as everybody knows. Do you ask me near what stream this sweet floweret grows? That's an ignorant question, sir, as everybody knows. Ask you what her age is, reckoned as time goes? Just the age of beauty, as everybody knows. Is she tall as Rosalind, standing on her toes? She is just the perfect height, as everybody knows. What's the color of her eyes, when they ope or close? Just the color they should be, as everybody knows. Is she lovelier dancing, or resting in repose? Both are radiant pictures, as everybody knows. Do her ships go sailing on every wind that blows? She is richer far than that, as everybody knows. Has she scores of lovers, heaps of bleeding beaux? That question's quite superfluous, as everybody knows. I could tell you something, if I only chose!— But what's the use of telling what everybody knows? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMMON SENSE by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS DIRGE FOR A YOUNG GIRL by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS JUPITER AND TEN by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS SACO FALLS by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS THE NANTUCKET SKIPPER by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS THE STARS AND STRIPES by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS THE TEMPEST by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS THE TURTLE AND THE FLAMINGO by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS WORDSWORTH by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS |
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