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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LUNCH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A gothic window, where a damask curtain
Last Line: With dreamy words -- and very pleasant eating!
Subject(s): Lunch
First Line: A gothic window, where a damask curtain
Last Line: With dreamy words -- and very pleasant eating!
Subject(s): Lunch
A GOTHIC window, where a damask curtain
Made the blank daylight shadowy and uncertain:
A slab of agate on four eagle-talons
Held trimly up and neatly taught to balance:
A porcelain dish, o'er which in many a cluster
Black grapes hung down, dead-ripe and without lustre:
A melon cut in thin, delicious slices:
A cake that seemed mosaic-work in spices:
Two China cups with golden tulips sunny,
And rich inside with chocolate like honey:
And she and I the banquet-scene completing
With dreamy words -- and very pleasant eating!
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