"SO back you have come from the town, Nan, dear! And have you seen him there, or near -- That soldier of mine -- Who long since promised to meet me here?" "-- O yes, Nell: from the town I come, And have seen your lover on sick-leave home -- That soldier of yours -- Who swore to meet you, or Strike-him-dumb; "But has kept himself of late away; Yet, -- in short, he's coming, I heard him say -- That lover of yours -- To this very spot on this very day." "-- Then I'll wait, I'll wait, through wet or dry! I'll give him a goblet brimming high -- This lover of mine -- And not of complaint one word or sigh!" "-- Nell, him I have chanced so much to see, That -- he has grown the lover of me! -- That lover of yours -- And it's here our meeting is planned to be." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: AT NICE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE by MARIANNE MOORE THE CASTAWAY by WILLIAM COWPER GARDEN DAYS: 3. THE FLOWERS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE SABBATH LAMP by GRACE AGUILAR CURIOUSLY EVANESCENT by EVA K. ANGLESBURG SONNET TO THE DEBEN by BERNARD BARTON TO A REDBREAST, THAT FLEW INTO A HOUSE ... by ELIZABETH BENTLEY |