Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


MOTHER, I cannot mind my wheel;
My fingers ache, my lips are dry:
Oh! if you felt the pain I feel!
But oh, who ever felt as I?
No longer could I doubt him true—	5
All other men may use deceit;
He always said my eyes were blue,
And often swore my lips were sweet.