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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AS TOLL, by JOHN BARKER First Line: Lovely mabel, were you dreaming? Last Line: Just for toll. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares | |||
LOVELY Mabel, were you dreaming? Glad the day you said to me, Dancing eyes so brightly beaming, "Give my love to dear Marie!" What a strange exhilaration To be bearer of your heart, What a wonderful temptation For a part. For I have not tried to find her Since you sent your love by me; Day by day I think I'm blinder, -- Fruitless search, as you might see. I wonder, if in sending, If you choose your slave by chance, What that twinkle was portending In your glance? Tell me, when I bear the treasure, Would you very angry be Should I keep a trifling measure That was hardly meant for me? For it's common in commissions Some percentage of the whole To extract from you patricians, Just for toll. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS TO THE MEMORY OF BEN JONSON by JOHN CLEVELAND |
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