FAIR Caroline, I wonder what You think of earth as a dwelling-spot, And if you'd rather have come, or not? To-day has laid on you a name That, though unasked for, you will claim Lifelong, for love or praise or blame. May chance and change impose on you No heavier burthen than this new Care-chosen one your future through! Dear stranger here, the prayer is mine That your experience may combine Good things with glad. . . . Yes, Caroline! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STABAT MATER DOLOROSA by JACOPONE DA TODI LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM by THOMAS MOORE EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN by ALEXANDER POPE INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A FAVOURITE DOG by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH SONNETS OF MANHOOD: SONNET 25. 'SOMETHING WAS WANTING' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE LAST MAN by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE OLD HOUSE by LAURENCE BINYON |