Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN CHARIDEMUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poet's Biography First Line: You, charidemus, who my cradle swung Last Line: And your own mistress hails me for a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Aging; Barbers | ||||||||
YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung, And watched me all the days that I was young; You, at whose step the laziest slaves awake, And both the bailiff and the butler quake; The barber's suds now blacken with my beard, And my rough kisses make the maids afeared; And with reproach your awful eyebrows twitch, And for the cane, I see, your fingers itch. If something daintily attired I go, Straight you exclaim: "Your father did not so." And fuming, count the bottles on the board As though my cellar were your private hoard. Enough, at last: I have done all I can, And your own mistress hails me for a man. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HAIRCUT by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER THE BARBER'S by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE DA WHEESTLIN' BARBER by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE SECOND CHAIR by FAIRFAX DOWNEY THE BARBER ABROAD by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON THE SPANISH BARBER by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON DOCTOR FELL by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS |
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