I LONGED to love a full-boughed beech And be as high as he: I stretched an arm within his reach, And signalled unity. But with his drip he forced a breach, And tried to poison me. I gave the grasp of partnership To one of other race -- A plane: he barked him strip by strip From upper bough to base; And me therewith; for gone my grip, My arms could not enlace. In new affection next I strove To coll an ash I saw, And he in trust received my love; Till with my soft green claw I cramped and bound him as I wove... Such was my love: ha-ha! By this I gained his strength and height Without his rivalry. But in my triumph I lost sight Of afterhaps. Soon he, Being bark-bound, flagged, snapped, fell outright, And in his fall felled me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VAQUERO by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER CLANCY OF THE MOUNTED POLICE by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE SONNET: 61 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 8. ON LEAVING HOLLAND by MARK AKENSIDE CARMEN SYLVA by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS TARQUIN AND THE AUGUR by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YEAR'S VERSES FOR 1825 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |