Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
IV. Wooing and WinningMy eyes! how I love you
John Godfrey Saxe (18161887)M
You sweet little dove you!
There ’s no one above you,
Most beautiful Kitty.
Like a sylph’s or a fairy’s;
And your neck, I declare, is
Exquisitely pretty.
And your cheeks are like roses,
So delicious—O Moses!
Surpassingly sweet!
Nor the taste of mint-juleps,
Can compare with your two lips,
Most beautiful Kate!
Nor Minerva’s of blue, no,
Nor Venus’s, you know,
Can equal your own!
And frolics and dances,
When their radiant glances
Upon me are thrown!
It ’s not very pretty,
Indeed it ’s a pity,
To keep me in sorrow!
We ’ll have done with our rhymin’,
Swap Cupid for Hymen,
And be married to-morrow.