<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392949" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If Amy Lowell Had Been James Whitcomb Riley</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you came you were like red wine and honey, <br>And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. <br>Now you are like morning bread-- <br>Smooth and pleasant, <br>I hardly taste you at all, for I know your savour, <br>But I am completely nourished. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">--AMY LOWELL, in The Chimæra.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I wuz courtin' Annie, she wuz honey an' red wine, <br>She made me feel all jumpy, did that ol' sweetheart o' mine; <br>Wunst w'en I went to Crawfordsville, on one o' them there trips, <br>I kissed her--an' the burnin' taste wuz sizzlin' on my lips. <br>An' now I've married Annie, an' I see her all the time, <br>I do not feel the daily need o' bustin' into rhyme. <br>An' now the wine-y taste is gone, fer Annie's always there, <br>An' I take her fer granted now, the same ez sun an' air. <br>But though the honey taste wuz sweet, an' though the wine wuz strong, <br>Yet ef I lost the sun an' air, I couldn't git along.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392949" data-title="If Amy Lowell Had Been James Whitcomb Riley de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="When you came you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread-- Smooth and pleasant, I hardly taste you at all, for I know your savour, But I am completely nourished. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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