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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES PLAYINGCARD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poet's Biography First Line: First comes the sprightly damsel playingcard Last Line: For that she dies -- bring on another wife! Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards | |||
First comes the sprightly damsel Playingcard In garb fantastic spotted like the pard With Heart and Club and Diamond and Spade; Lightly she comes, poor unsuspecting maid She does not see how Bluebeard on the sly Plucks a Blue Hair, his carving-knife to try. The crime of Playingcard was brightening life. For that she dies -- bring on another wife! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN TEN MILLS: IN DIVES' DIVE by ROBERT FROST PROUST'S MADELEINE by KENNETH REXROTH SOLITAIRE UNDER THE OAKS by WALLACE STEVENS THE CARD-DEALER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI DON'T WAKE THE CARDS by CHARLES SIMIC LIMERICK by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD |
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