KIND hostess mine, who raised the latch And welcomed me beneath your thatch, Who makes me here forget the pain, And all the pleasures of Cockaigne, Now, pen in hand, and pierced with woe, I write one word before I go— A word that dies upon my lips While thus you kiss your finger-tips. When Black-eyed Sue was rowed to land That word she cried, and waved her hand— Her lily hand! It seems absurd, But I can't write that dreadful word. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWILIGHT SYMPHONY by LESLIE ANDERSON BE STILL, MY SOUL by ARCHILOCHUS BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA by ALFRED AUSTIN BOTHWELL: PART 5 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 6. OF PATIENCE by WILLIAM BASSE THE LITTLE ONES GREATNESS by JOSEPH BEAUMONT WHITSUNDAY 1644 by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |