So Bashful When I Spied Her!
poem 91
So Bashful When I Spied Her! - meaning Summary
Shy Encounter and Secrecy
The poem describes a shy, blushing figure the speaker glimpses and then furtively follows past her leafy hiding place. The speaker feels both charmed and complicit, admitting to taking her from a dingle and betraying a dell while refusing to reveal the object or motive. The tone is playful and secretive, mixing intimacy, protection, and a teasing refusal to explain the speaker’s actions or the true identity of the beloved.
Read Complete AnalysesSo bashful when I spied her! So pretty so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find So breathless till I passed here So helpless when I turned And bore her struggling, blushing, Her simple haunts beyond! For whom I robbed the Dingle For whom I betrayed the Dell Many, will doubtless ask me, But I shall never tell!
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