Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TO MONA by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER

First Line: WHEN DAINTY MONA WALKS THIS WAY
Last Line: AND WOULD AGAIN BE FREE.
Subject(s): LOVE;
WHEN dainty Mona walks this way
My foolish heart will beat,
And leaves me, though I turn aside,
To lie beneath her feet.

It follows her all up and down
More faithfully, I wis,
Than that be-ribboned spaniel which
She honours with a kiss!

And when all chidden by her frown
My heart creeps back to me,
It holds my breast a prison-house
And would again be free.



Home: PoetryExplorer.net