This time of year a twelvemonth past, When Fred and I would meet, We needs must jangle, till at last We fought and I was beat. So then the summer fields about, Till rainy days began, Rose Harland on her Sundays out Walked with the better man. The better man she walks with still, Though now 'tis not with Fred: A lad that lives and has his will Is worth a dozen dead Fred keeps the house all kinds of weather, And clay's the house he keeps When Rose and I walk out together Stock-still lies Fred and sleeps. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAY MAGNIFICAT by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE NO-LONGER-MERRY ANCIENT MONARCH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS BROTHERLY LOVE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH WEAVERS ALL by MINNIE KEITH BAILEY HINTS OF AN HISTORICAL PLAY TO BE CALLED WILLIAM RUFUS by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |