Philander's Song

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts 1860 (Douglas) – 1943 (Toronto)



(from "The Sprightly Pilgrim")
   I sat and read Anacreon.
     Moved by the gay, delicious measure
   I mused that lips were made for love,
     And love to charm a poet's leisure.
   And as I mused a maid came by
     With something in her look that caught me.
   Forgotten was Anacreon's line,
     But not the lesson he had taught me.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCDCEFBF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 338
Words 60
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. more…

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