Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CATULLUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that you were alive today, catullus! Last Line: Not alfred tennyson nor alfred austin. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.) | ||||||||
WOULD that you were alive today, Catullus! Truth 'tis, there is a filthy skunk amongst us, A rank musk-idiot, the filthiest skunk, Of no least sorry use on earth, but only Fit in fancy to justify the outlay Of your most horrible vocabulary. My Muse, all innocent as Eve in Eden, Would yet wear any skins of old pollution Rather than celebrate the name detested. Ev'n now might he rejoice at our attention, Guess'd he this little ode were aiming at him. Oh! were you but alive again, Catullus! For see, not one among the bards of our time With their flimsy tackle was out to strike him; Not those two pretty Laureates of England, Not Alfred Tennyson nor Alfred Austin. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON CATULLUS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR PASSER MORTUUS EST by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE by ALFRED TENNYSON HENDECASYLLABICS by ALFRED TENNYSON TO CATULLUS -- HIGHET by KELLY CHERRY AFTER CATULLUS by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN ADVICE TO AURELIUS by JAMES LAUGHLIN TECHNICAL NOTES by JAMES LAUGHLIN A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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