Social Commentaries
To Helen (With a Small Candlestick)
From The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1886)
Social Commentaries
If, wand’ring in a wizard’s car
Through yon blue ether, I were able
To fashion of a little star
A taper for my Helen’s table,--
“What then?” she asks me, with a laugh:--
Why then, with all Heaven’s lustre glowing,
It would not gild her path with half
The light her love o’er mine is throwing!
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Praed, Winthrop Mackworth. “To Helen (With a Small Candlestick).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/praed/88/.
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Praed, Winthrop Mackworth. “To Helen (With a Small Candlestick).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/praed/88/.
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