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Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)

Philander's Song


(from "The Sprightly Pilgrim")

              1I sat and read Anacreon.
              2    Moved by the gay, delicious measure
              3I mused that lips were made for love,
              4    And love to charm a poet's leisure.

              5And as I mused a maid came by
              6    With something in her look that caught me.
              7Forgotten was Anacreon's line,
              8    But not the lesson he had taught me.

Notes

1] Anacreon: Greek poet (572?-488?).

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Selected Poems of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (Toronto: Ryerson, 1936): 156. PS 8485 O22A17 Robarts Library.
First publication date: 1927
Publication date note: The Vagrant of Time (1927).
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/3

Rhyme: abcb

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