English Poetry. Ellis Parker Butler. Anticipation. Эллис Паркер Батлер.

Ellis Parker Butler (Эллис Паркер Батлер)

Anticipation


I hold her letter as I stand,
  Nor break the seal; no need to guess
What dainty little female hand
  Penned this most delicate address.

The scented seal—I break it not,
  But stand in stormy revery;
I tremble as I wonder what
  She who penned this will say to me.

I wonder what my wife will say
  If so it be she e’er shall know
I only mailed her note today—
  It should have gone two weeks ago!

Ellis Parker Butler’s other poems:

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Anticipation (“I had a vision in the summer light”)

Emily Brontë (Эмили Бронте) Anticipation (“How beautiful the earth is still”)

Amy Lowell (Эми Лоуэлл) Anticipation (“I have been temperate always”)

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