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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROLOGUE TO 'PROVERBS IN PORECLAIN', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assume that we are friends. Assume Last Line: Thus grew the 'scenes' that follow now. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin | |||
ASSUME that we are friends. Assume A common taste for old costume, -- Old pictures, -- books. Then dream us sitting -- Us two -- in some soft-lighted room. Outside, the wind; -- the 'ways are mire.' We, with our faces toward the fire, Finished the feast not full but fitting, Watch the light-leaping flames aspire. Silent at first, in time we glow; Discuss 'eclectics', high and low; Inspect engravings, 'twixt us passing The fancies of DETROY, MOREAU; 'Reveils' and 'Couchers', 'Balls' and 'Fetes'; Anon we glide to 'crocks' and plates, Grow eloquent on glaze and classing, And half-pathetic over 'states.' Then I produce my Prize, in truth; -- Six groups in SEVRES, fresh as Youth, And rare as Love. You pause, you wonder, (Pretend to doubt the marks, forsooth!) And so we fall to why and how The fragile figures smile and bow; Divine, at length, the fable under... Thus grew the 'Scenes' that follow now. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A GARDEN SONG by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON BEFORE SEDAN by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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