4 thoughts on “Slowly”

  1. would be interesting to switch genders and see if it works:
    Just because you turn
    slowly slowly
    to check him out
    slowly
    as he walks past
    doesn’t mean
    that he don’t notice.
    does it? if not, why not? you need to write a thesis on use and impact of gender in poetry. or, you could purchase the thesis online. either way, i see a book tour.
    “England’s sun was SLOWLY setting o’er the hill-tops far away,
    Filling all the land with beauty at the close of one sad day;
    And its last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair,—
    He with footsteps slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair;
    He with bowed head, sad and thoughtful; she with lips so cold and white,
    Struggled to keep back the murmur, “Curfew must not ring to-night.””
    —Rose Hartwick Thorpe (1850– ?), Curfew must not ring Tonight.

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