Arts & Sciences
The Skipping Rope
From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Arts & Sciences
Sure never yet was Antelope
Could skip so lightly by,
Stand off, or else my skipping-rope
Will hit you in the eye.
How lightly whirls the skipping-rope!
How fairy-like you fly!
Go, get you gone, you muse and mope—
I hate that silly sigh.
Nay, dearest, teach me how to hope,
Or tell me how to die.
There, take it, take my skipping-rope,
And hang yourself thereby.
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MLA
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “The Skipping Rope.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/243/.
Chicago
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “The Skipping Rope.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/243/.
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