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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HER GOWN; ON LAYING IT BY, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE First Line: Dear gown, that he has known me in Last Line: Those dreams that had so soon an end! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress | |||
DEAR gown, that he has known me in— And still perhaps his eyes would trace— You're blameless, though I could not win His love—yours was a faultless grace! For so much folly to confess I chose you wistfully, with care, Because I think much comeliness Accrues from comely clothes we wear. I'll warrant you became me well— At once we seemed so long allied, And by the way your rich folds fell, To do me honour seemed your pride. I wonder you should still seem new, For though indeed if they be told, The times I wore you were but few, My heart in the same while grew old; And as clothes' fashions so soon change, And not the comeliest long remain, Next year you'd be considered strange— But you shall not be worn again. You never shall provoke the scoff Of fools at antiquated worth; Nor, now that I have left you off, Be cast to beggars of mean birth. But in the chest where you must lie Myself I'll lay you, like a friend; For with you, too, must be put by Those dreams that had so soon an end! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS by MARK JARMAN IT'S HARD TO KEEP A CLEAN SHIRT CLEAN by JUNE JORDAN ODE TO A DRESSMAKER'S DUMMY by DONALD JUSTICE THE RED SHIRT by PHILIP LEVINE THE THINGS IN BLACK MEN?ÇÖS CLOSETS by E. ETHELBERT MILLER A TRADITION by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE FAUN AND MAIDEN (SUGGESTED BY MARBLE GROUP, UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE) by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE |
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