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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A LADY WHO SPOKE WITH SOME ILL-NATURE OF AD OF MY LITTLE WORK, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poet's Biography First Line: Says pert miss prue Last Line: And raising such a racket! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Rhyme; Writing & Writers | |||
Says pert Miss Prue, There's something new In Chalmers' weekly papers A Shipwright's Wife, In humble life, Writes rhyme by nightly tapers!! That folks of taste Their time should waste To read them, makes me wonder! A low-born fool, Ne'er bred in school, What can she do but blunder? Write rhyme, forsooth! Upon my truth 'Twill put it out of fashion; She can but paint, In colours faint, Rude Nature's lowest passion. A wife so mean Should nurse and clean, And mend her husband's jacket; Not spend her time In writing rhyme, And raising such a racket! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SENT WITH A FLOWER POT, BEGGING A SLIP OF GERANIUM by CHRISTIAN MILNE TO A GENTLEMAN, DESIROUS OF SEEING MY MANUSCRIPTS by CHRISTIAN MILNE |
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