I WANT three days to read the Iliad through! So, Corydon, close fast my chamber door. If anything should bother me before I've done, I swear you'll have somewhat to rue! No! not the servant, nor your mate, nor you Shall come to make the bed or clean the floor. I must have three good quiet days -- or four. Then I'll make merry for a week or two. Ah! but -- if any one should come from HER, Admit him quickly! Be no loiterer, But come and make me brave for his receiving. But no one else! -- not friends or nearest kin! Though an Olympian God should seek me, leaving His Heaven, shut fast the door! Don't let him in! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HUMBLE-BEE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON LAIS' MIRROR by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS THE VISION OF SPRING, 1916 by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HARTFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD SPRING PLOWING by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 3 by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |