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Help[Opinions] Re: Phyllida
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You're going to love this! https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/phillida-flouts-me
This is the first stanza - it's lo-o-ong!
Oh, what a plague is love! How shall I bear it?
She will unconstant prove, I greatly fear it.
She so molests my mind, that my wit faileth.
She wavers with the wind, as the ship saileth.
Please her the best I may,
She looks another way.
Alack and well-a-day!
Phyllida flouts me.
When I was very young indeed - about 8 if not smaller - a friend of my mother's gave me some very old books for girls, 1920s vintage if not even earlier, and I read them because I used to read the labels on bottles and the backs of bus tickets. There was a story about a large family, which focused on two of the sisters, Phyllida and Geraldine. I'm afraid that's all I remember. I liked Phyllida much better than Phyllis (a neighbour, and a nice person, but ...).
Phyllida needs a really vintage name: these were popular in 17th century England.
Phyllida Judith
Phyllida Rachel
Phyllida Lucy
Phyllida Bridget
Phyllida Frances
Phyllida Marjorie
This is the first stanza - it's lo-o-ong!
Oh, what a plague is love! How shall I bear it?
She will unconstant prove, I greatly fear it.
She so molests my mind, that my wit faileth.
She wavers with the wind, as the ship saileth.
Please her the best I may,
She looks another way.
Alack and well-a-day!
Phyllida flouts me.
When I was very young indeed - about 8 if not smaller - a friend of my mother's gave me some very old books for girls, 1920s vintage if not even earlier, and I read them because I used to read the labels on bottles and the backs of bus tickets. There was a story about a large family, which focused on two of the sisters, Phyllida and Geraldine. I'm afraid that's all I remember. I liked Phyllida much better than Phyllis (a neighbour, and a nice person, but ...).
Phyllida needs a really vintage name: these were popular in 17th century England.
Phyllida Judith
Phyllida Rachel
Phyllida Lucy
Phyllida Bridget
Phyllida Frances
Phyllida Marjorie
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At first I thought that poem was written recently, and decided it's a brilliant parody! But I after some Googling I see it was published in 1884. It's... definitely a Romantic work! (Also I read to the end, and who the heck is Giles? lol)
I think Phyllida Marjorie is my favorite of what you posted. Phyllida Lucy might have the best "flow," but I never could warm up to Lucy.
I think Phyllida Marjorie is my favorite of what you posted. Phyllida Lucy might have the best "flow," but I never could warm up to Lucy.
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