Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870). After the Quarrel. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

After the Quarrel

By Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870)


HE never gave me a chance to speak,
And he call’d her—worse than a dog—
The girl stood up with a crimson cheek,
And I fell’d him there like a log.

I can feel the blow on my knuckles yet—	5
He feels it more on his brow.
In a thousand years we shall all forget
The things that trouble us now.