WHAT a curious world is this -- Things we crave and things we miss! All the men are dickering, Half the women bickering, Moth-wings caught within the wax keep the candles flickering. Commerce and society Bring the same satiety. Love alone seems worth the while! ... Yet upon how few may smile Pretty Kitty Pickering. What a curious world is this -- Living, dying, for a kiss! Boys at lovers snickering, Jilted men a-liquoring, Every maid upon her hand longing for a thicker ring, -- Finding in distraction Never satisfaction. Yet to lose love were worth while Had you known her winsome smile -- Pretty Kitty Pickering. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE COMPLAINT OF CHAUCER TO HIS EMPTY PURSE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER SONNET: 55 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO AN INDEPENDENT PREACHER by MATTHEW ARNOLD PSALM 17. EXAUDI DOMINE JUSTITIAM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE RUSSIA by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK THE PRAYERS by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN THE POET'S DESIRE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |