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You Looked So Tempting In The Pew

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



YOU looked so tempting in the pew,
You looked so sly and calm -
My trembling fingers played with yours
As both looked out the Psalm.

Your heart beat hard against my arm,
My foot to yours was set,
Your loosened ringlet burned my cheek
Whenever they two met.

O little, little we hearkened, dear,
And little, little cared,
Although the parson sermonised,
The congregation stared.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XXXX XAXA XBAB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 373
Words 68
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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