Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | III. Love’s Beginnings | | Kitty of Coleraine | | Charles Dawson Shanly (1811–1875) |
| | | AS beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping | |
| With a pitcher of milk, from the fair of Coleraine, | |
| When she saw me she stumbled, the pitcher it tumbled, | |
| And all the sweet buttermilk watered the plain. | |
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| “O, what shall I do now—’t was looking at you now! | 5 |
| Sure, sure, such a pitcher I ’ll ne’er meet again! | |
| ’T was the pride of my dairy: O Barney M’Cleary! | |
| You ’re sent as a plague to the girls of Coleraine.” | |
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| I sat down beside her, and gently did chide her, | |
| That such a misfortune should give her such pain. | 10 |
| A kiss then I gave her; and ere I did leave her, | |
| She vowed for such pleasure she ’d break it again. | |
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| ’T was hay-making season—I can’t tell the reason— | |
| Misfortunes will never come single, ’t is plain; | |
| For very soon after poor Kitty’s disaster | 15 |
| The devil a pitcher was whole in Coleraine. | | | | |
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