DIMPLY damsel, sweetly smiling, All caressing, none beguiling, Bud of beauty, fairly blowing, Every charm to nature owing, This and that new thing admiring, Much of this and that inquiring, Knowledge by degrees attaining, Day by day some virtue gaining, Ten years hence, when I leave chiming, Beardless poets, fondly rhyming (Fescu'd now, perhaps, in spelling), On thy riper beauties dwelling, Shall accuse each killing feature Of the cruel, charming creature, Whom I know complying, willing, Tender, and averse to killing | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THEY PRAISE THE SUN by JOHN CROWE RANSOM TROY PARK: 1. THE WARMTH OF SPRING by EDITH SITWELL LOVE IN AUTUMN by SARA TEASDALE NOT DEAD by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES AMY WENTWORTH; FOR WILLIAM BRADFORD by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |