THE ideal co-ed is a thing of books, A creature of brain entirely; With stooping shoulders and studious looks, She digs all day and half the night; People say she is wondrous bright, But her figure's an awful sight! Her thoughts are deep in the classic past, She only thinks of A. B. at last; She has fled this world and its masculine charms, And a refuge found in Minerva's arms. Now, the kind of co-ed that I describe Is a co-ed seen very rarely; The real co-ed's a thing of grace, With dainty figure and winsome face; She walks and rides, and she cuts, mon Dieu! But every professor lets her through; For her each year is a round of joy, A. B. means nothing if not "A Boy," And you and I must yield to her charms, And take the place of Minerva's arms. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DIM DOORWAY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A FORGOTTEN TUNE by PAUL VERLAINE THE KING OF SPAIN by MAXWELL BODENHEIM MOTLEY: THE GHOST by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE ORACLES by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN HABEAS CORPUS by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON |