Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOMEWHERE-IN-EUROPE-WOCKY, by F. C. HARTSWICK First Line: Twas brussels, and the loos liege Last Line: And the tsing-tau namur. Subject(s): Europe | ||||||||
'TWAS brussels, and the loos liege Did meuse and arras in latour; All vimy were the metz maubege, And the tsing-tau namur. "Beware the petrograd, my son -- The jaws that bite, the claws that plough! Beware the posen, and verdun The soldan mons glogau!" He took his dixmude sword in hand; Long time his altkirch foe he sought; Then rested he 'neath the warsaw tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in danzig thought he stood The petrograd, with eyes of flame, Came ypring through the cracow wood, And longwied as it came. One two! One two! and through and through The dixmude blade went snicker-snack; He left it dead, and with its head He gallipolied back. "And hast thou slain the petrograd? Come to my arms, my krithnia boy! O chanak day! Artois! Grenay!" He woevred in his joy. 'Twas brussels, and the loos liege Did meuse and arras in latour; All vimy were the metz maubege, And the tsing-tau namur. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EPITAPH: EUROPE by ANNE CARSON SUN AND MOON FLOWERS: PAUL KLEE, 1879-1940 by NORMAN DUBIE DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS by GEOFFREY HILL DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER EUROPE A PROPHECY by WILLIAM BLAKE ON REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI EUROPE; THE 72ND AND 73RD YEARS OF THESE STATES by WALT WHITMAN TO A FOIL'D EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONAIRE by WALT WHITMAN ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 11. TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND by MARK AKENSIDE |
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