COLIN, worshipping some frail,
By self-deception sways her:
Calls himself unworthy male,
Hardly even fit to praise her.

But this tactic insincere
In the upshot greatly grieves him
When he finds the lovely dear
Quite implicitly believes him.

(C) Christopher Morley
03/11/2017


Best Poems of Christopher Morley

• Smells
• The Milkman
• The Barren Music Of A Word Or Phrase,
• Animal Crackers
• Our House
• Washing The Dishes
• To A Child
• The Old Swimmer
• The Church Of Unbent Knees
• Song In A Dentists Chair
• When I A Householder Became
• Reading Aloud
• Hymn To The Dairymaids On Beacon Street
• Taking Title
• Tit For Tat
• On Naming A House
• At The Mermaid Caffeteria
• Burning Leaves In Spring
• The Music Box
• The Commercial Traveler
• Caught In The Undertow