BEFORE our banns be published like a tax, Ask'd on the portals of St. Mary Axe, If thou wilt marry me -- then prythee tell -- Oh now -- or fare thee well! Think of old maids of seventy -- fourscore, Fourscore old women at the temple's door, Those that can read, and those that learn to spell -- Oh now -- or fare thee well! Suppose our names a history -- suppose Our love forepicked to pieces, like a rose Shed blushing all abroad -- my Isabel! Oh now -- or fare thee well!" -- THEODOSIUS. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOTLEY: MUSIC by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT by JOHN DONNE SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION] by JEAN INGELOW LAYS OF FRANCE: SONG (2) by MARIE DE FRANCE THE FIRST PROCLAMATION OF MILES STANDISH [NOVEMBER 23, 1620] by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON CROSSING THE BAR by ALFRED TENNYSON |