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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNDAY NIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Two grave brown eyes, severely bent
Last Line: And smile again at her accounts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Mothers
First Line: Two grave brown eyes, severely bent
Last Line: And smile again at her accounts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Mothers
TWO grave brown eyes, severely bent
Upon a memorandum book --
A sparkling face, on which are blent
A hopeful and a pensive look;
A pencil, purse, and book of checks
With stubs for varying amounts --
Elaine, the shrewdest of her sex,
Is busy balancing accounts.
Sedately, in the big armchair,
She, all engrossed, the audit scans --
Her pencil hovers here and there
The while she calculates and plans;
What's this? A faintly pensive frown
Upon her forehead gathers now --
Ah, does the butcher -- heartless clown --
Beget that shadow on her brow?
A murrain on the tradesman churl
Who caused this fair accountant's gloom!
Just then -- a baby's cry -- my girl
Arose and swiftly left the room.
Then in her purse by stratagem
I thrust some bills of small amounts --
She'll think she had forgotten them,
And smile again at her accounts!
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