Representative Poetry Online
On this day: March 7th
Random Poem of the Day
2 Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow,
3Or, ling'ring where the brooklets purl,
4 Laves in the cool, refreshing flow.
5To-morrow, Thisbe, with a host
6 Of amorous suitors in her train,
7Comes like a goddess forth to coast
8 Or skate upon the frozen main.
9To-day, sweet posies mark her track,
10 While birds sing gayly in the trees;
11To-morrow morn, her sealskin sack
12 Defies the piping polar breeze.
13So Doris is to-day enthused
14 By Thisbe's soft, responsive sighs,
15And on the morrow is confused
16 By Thisbe's cold, repellent eyes.
Notes
1] Thisbe: among others, the tragic heroine of the rustics' play-within-the-play in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Back to Line