At a Dinner Party

Amy Levy 1861 (London) – 1889 (London)



With fruit and flowers the board is deckt,
The wine and laughter flow;
I'll not complain--could one expect
So dull a world to know?

You look across the fruit and flowers,
My glance your glances find.--
It is our secret, only ours,
Since all the world is blind.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CACA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 261
Words 51
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Amy Levy

Amy Levy was a British essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her feminist positions and her homosexual romances during the Victorian era. more…

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