To think I once saw grocery shops With but a casual eye And fingered figs and apricots An one who came to buy. To think I never dreamed of how Bananas sway in rain And often looked at oranges Yet never thought of Spain. And in those wasted days I saw No sails above the tea, For grocery shops were grocery shops -- Not hemispheres to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THREE STEPS by KATHARINE LEE BATES GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND by JOHN BYROM TALE: 1. THE DUMB ORATORS; OR, THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY by GEORGE CRABBE JOY AND SORROW by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE SATIRE: 16 by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS |