<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530100" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Riddle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon a Bed of humble clay<br>In all her Garments loose<br>A Prostitute my Mother lay<br>To ev'ry Comer's use.<br>'Till one Gallant in heat of love<br>His Own Peculiar made her<br>And to a Region far above<br>And softer Beds convey'd her.<br>But in his Absence, to his Place<br>His rougher Rival came<br>And with a cold constrain'd Embrace<br>Begat me on the Dame.<br>I then appear'd to Publick View<br>A Creature wondrous bright<br>But shortly perishable too<br>Inconstant, nice and light.<br>On Feathers not together fast<br>I wildly flew about<br>And from my Father's country past<br>To find my Mother out.<br>Where her Gallant of her beguil'd<br>With me enamour'd grew<br>And I that was my Mother's Child<br>Brought forth my Mother too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Parnell">Thomas Parnell</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=530100" data-title="A Riddle de Thomas Parnell" data-description="Upon a Bed of humble clay In all her Garments loose A Prostitute my Mother lay To ev'ry Comer's use. 'Till one Gallant in heat of love His Own Peculiar made her And to a Region far above And softer Beds convey'd her. But in his Absence, to his Pla..."></div> </div> </div>

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