At stool-ball, Lucia, let us play
For sugar-cakes and wine:
Or for a tansy let us pay,
The loss, or thine, or mine.
If thou, my dear, a winner be
At trundling of the ball,
The wager thou shall have, and me,
And my misfortunes all.
But if, my sweetest, I shall get,
Then I desire but this:
That likewise I may pay the bet
And have for all a kiss.
Stool-ball
Robert Herrick
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Poem topics: kiss, loss, dear, desire, play, sugar, thine, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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