WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CONTRETEMPS by THOMAS HARDY TO THE BOY by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY SONNET: 30 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS CITY AND VILLAGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 18. HARD TO BE PLEASED by PHILIP AYRES A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 11 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 12 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |