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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DARK-EYED GENTLEMAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pitched my day's leazings in crimmercrock lane Last Line: That his daddy once tied up my garter for me! Subject(s): Seduction | |||
I I PITCHED my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane, To tie up my garter and jog on again, When a dear dark-eyed gentleman passed there and said, In a way that made all o' me colour rose-red, 'What do I see - O pretty knee!' And he came and he tied up my garter for me. II 'Twixt sunset and moonrise it was, I can mind: Ah, 'tis easy to lose what we nevermore find! - Of the dear stranger's home, of his name, I knew nought, But I soon knew his nature and all that it brought. Then bitterly Sobbed I that he Should ever have tied up my garter for me! III Yet now I've beside me a fine lissom lad, And my slip's nigh forgot, and my days are not sad; My own dearest joy is he, comrade, and friend, He it is who safe-guards me, on him I depend; No sorrow brings he, And thankful I be That his daddy once tied up my garter for me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RED TURTLENECK by KAREN SWENSON THE WILLING MISTRESS by APHRA BEHN FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18 by THOMAS CAMPION THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 18. THE CHARM by THOMAS CAMPION THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23 by THOMAS CAMPION THE FAIR SINGER by ANDREW MARVELL THE MAIMED DEBAUCHEE by JOHN WILMOT AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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