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.
Sara Teasdale
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.
The speaker recalls three men who came to her differently. Strephon kissed her in the spring, but his kiss seemed like a joke. Robin kissed her in the fall, but his kiss was only play. Colin did not kiss her at all—he simply looked at her. That look is the one she cannot get out of her mind.
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