One day one young Creole candio, Mo' fineh dan sho nuf white beau, Kip all de time meckin' feee -- "Swithawt, meck merrie wid me." "Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie, me. Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie." I go teck walk in wood close by; But Creole tek' sem road, and try All time, all time, to meck free -- "Swithawt, meck merrie wid me." "Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie, me. Naw, sah, I dawn't want meck merrie." But him slide roun' an' roun' dis chile, Tell, jis' fo' sheck 'im off lill while, Me, I was bleedze fo' say, "Shoo! If I'll meck merrie wid you? O, yass, I ziss leave meck merrie me; Yass, seh, I ziss leave meck merrie." You-alls w'at laugh at me so well, I wish you'd knowed dat Creole swell, Wid all 'is swit, smilin' trick. 'Pon my soul! you'd done say, quick, "O, yass, I ziss leave meck merrie, me; Yass, seh, I ziss leave meck merrie." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A POET'S EPITAPH by EBENEZER ELLIOTT BURIAL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SINCE THOU ART GONE by HENRY VAUGHAN THE PEACE: TO HEAVEN ON A BEETLE by ARISTOPHANES FRAGMENT OF AN 'ANTIGONE' by MATTHEW ARNOLD FIVE LITTLE WANDERINGS: 2. CHILDHOOD by BERTON BRALEY |