I. SAID Nestor, to his pretty wife, quite sorrowful one day, "Why, dearest, will you shed in pearls those lovely eyes away? You ought to be more fortified;" "Ah, brute, be quiet, do, I know I'm not so fortyfied, nor fiftyfied as you! II. Oh, men are vile deceivers all, as I have ever heard, You'd die for me you swore, and I -- I took you at your word. I was a tradesman's widow then -- a pretty change I've made; To live, and die the wife of one, a widower by trade!" III. "Come, come, my dear, these flighty airs declare, in sober truth, You want as much in age, indeed, as I can want in youth; Besides, you said you liked old men, though now at me you huff." "Why, yes," she said, "and so I do -- but you're not old enough!" IV "Come, come, my dear, let's make it up, and have a quiet hive; I'll be the best of men, -- I mean, -- I'll be the best @3alive!@1 Your grieving so will kill me, for it cuts me to the core." -- "I thank ye, Sir, for telling me -- for now I'll grieve the more!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MEDAL; A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION by JOHN DRYDEN LOVE DISSEMBLED, FR. AS YOU LIKE IT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE LAMENTATION OF DANAE by SIMONIDES OF CEOS IF WE KNEW; OR, BLESSINGS OF TO-DAY by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH THE CITY CHILD by ALFRED TENNYSON |