Sukey

Sukey's rare and Sukey's fair

Sukey's got the coal black hair

And in her neck the curl'd drakes tail
That makes her looks so very fine
And in her breast this heart of mine
That keeps me like a thief in jail
Which is so very fair and white
It keeps me waken half the night

#photography #poetry #environment

[Image: One of Lady Clementina Hawarden's lovely daughters, photographed around 1860]