AND when I so long, so long had delay'd, In foreign lands had in reveries stay'd, My loved one found it too long to wait, And sew'd herself a wedding-dress straight, And then embraced in her arms, willy-nilly, As bridegroom, the youth in the world the most silly. My loved one is so beauteous and soft, Before me still hovers her image oft; Her rosy cheeks, her violet eyes That all the year round glow bright as the skies. That I could fly from such charming attractions Was the silliest far of my silliest actions. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HENRY MOORE'S STATUE AT LINCOLN CENTER by KAREN SWENSON A MORE ANCIENT MARINER by BLISS CARMAN OPPORTUNITY by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI THE SWING by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE WHITE CHARGER by ABUS SALT BETWEEN WAND AND WELT by MARGARET AHO |