Mother, I cannot mind my Wheel

Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

MOTHER, I cannot mind my wheel; My fingers ache, my lips are dry: O, if you felt the pain I feel! But O, who ever felt as I?

No longer could I doubt him true-- All other men may use deceit; He always said my eyes were blue, And often swore my lips were sweet.

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