Thursday, May 8, 2014

No!

 Poet Name: TOMAS HOOD

NO sun--no moon!
No morn--no noon---
No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day.
No sky--no earthly view--

No distance looking blue--
No road--no street--no "t'other side the way"--
No end to any Row--
No indications where the crescents go--
No top to any steeple--
No recognitions  of familiar people--
No courtesies for showing 'em--
No knowing 'em!'--
No travelling  at all--no locomotion,
No inkling of the way--no notion--
"No go'--by land or ocean--
No mail--no post--
No news from any foreign coast--
No park--no ring--no afternoon gentility--
No company--no nobility--
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member--
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds!--
November!.

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