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Showing posts with label Comical Sonnet of Clumsy Courtship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comical Sonnet of Clumsy Courtship. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 January 2012

The Dashing Haberdasher Unrequited

Every bonnet has a 'b' within it;

With ribbons bound there's swarms of b's without.

If a honey combs her hair the limit

Is reached when she breaks out in hives to shout!

The neck, to her, is something to be wringed,

Like nectar wrung from unsuspecting blooms;

Less furry fury took to flight and winged

With buzzwords barked like supersonic booms!

Alas! a lass with bee in her bonnet,

By hap in flap with what's before her eyes,

Finds paper not averse but what's on it:

What sonnet could be easier to despise?

What's done is done, but, stung, she still would sting,

And cut to ribbons more than this offering!