Rondeau
by Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that in:
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I’m growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.
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[…] Like to get a poem a day, but don’t do the pod thing yet? (BTW, stay tuned on that. I -did- attend PodCamp last weekend, and I’m excited about the chance to put some audio/video up here over the next few weeks. I’m just working out all the logistics now.) Drop by All Things Human, where Robert Huntington, an attorney, chess player and self-admitted former (bad) poet, posts a new poem every day. Just a very quick perusal of his latest entries turned up several of my all time favorites - poems that I’d tucked away and forgotten - Leigh Hunt’s Rondeau (better known as ‘Jenny Kissed Me), Santayana’s Cape Cod. He has a liking for the older British poets - Donne, Marvell, Thomas Hardy - and the poems are well-chosen. Drop by, leave a comment, enjoy. […]
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