A Yellow Dress For Sale Poem by Nellie Isabelle Steward Cooper

A Yellow Dress For Sale

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A yellow dress for sale
Worn only twice
As good as new
At a very low price

I bought the yellow dress
With such a happy heart
I Didn't see then

How my true love
And I could ever part

I wore the yellow dress
with a white rose
in my hair

His eyes were everywhere
But not on me....you see

I lent the yellow dress
To my friend to wear
I helped to pin a white rose
In her brown dark hair

His eyes did stray
Not a time my way

Not a word or glance
Between us two
He danced with her
that long night through

A yellow dress for sale

I saw his love begin
In a quickened glance
And her heart was his
Before their second dance

And in the fall his bride
she'll surely be
And a bridesmaid I
Who his wife should truly be

How can the heart
Such anguish hold
When hope is dead
and love grows cold
And proud lips must
Their smiles arrange

Through bitter tears
Is the world
So lost and strange

A yellow dress for sale
Worn only twice
As good as new
At a very low price

A Yellow Dress For Sale
Monday, March 10, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: blank verse
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
James B. Earley 23 March 2008

A sad message......yet a beautiful poem. Thanks.

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Howard Johnson 19 March 2008

The last stanza make this write complete,

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Ann Beard 10 March 2008

A great tale and many a woman has been there. I enjoyed your poem. Thank you

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