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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE EMBARRASSING QUESTION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Do you like my new hat?' says your wife Last Line: "at any rate, dear, I like you""?" Subject(s): Hats; Likes And Dislikes | |||
"Do you like my new hat?" says your wife, Appearing in awful disguise, A fabric whose towering strife Shrieks up to the horrified skies. "Do you like my new hat?" and she smiles, Her dimples with diffidence blent, And all the dear, timorous wiles That seek a delighted assent. And what is a fellow of wit, And honest, moreover, to do, But say, as he shudders from it, "At any rate, dear, I like you"? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FORGOTTEN IS DECEMBER by MARY HELEN PAGE REVERSING THE FIGURES by JOHN GODFREY SAXE FOR SOME ... FOR ME by FLORENCE KRIEG THIES I LOVE A WOOD by DOROTHY WHITTINGTON SWEET-TOOTH WITCH by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON IN LATE FALL by PHILIP S. BRYANT MANUSCRIPT IN A BOTTLE by PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA HAD LINCOLN LIVED by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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