The Look
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.
By Sara Teasdale from Rivers to the Sea (1915)
“The Look” by Sara Teasdale was also featured for Poem-a-Day April 8, 2008.