Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FULVIA, OR SUPPOSED THOUGHTS OF A HOOTED CANDIDATE (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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FULVIA, OR SUPPOSED THOUGHTS OF A HOOTED CANDIDATE (1), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, ye shades of summer eve, that close
Last Line: Should either tax our needles for reply?
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Fulvia (40 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark


Welcome, ye shades of summer eve, that close
My day among the tongues of yonder town!
I would not pluck them out nor pin them down,
As vengeful Fulvia did with Cicero's -
Nor to mere petulance of speech assign
The cruel meed of his rare excellence -
Enough for me this stillness, and the sense
That they no longer vex these ears of mine;
I will not vent my rage on foolish lungs,
Nor, even in fancy, re-enact the deed
Wreak'd on the Roman, in the stress and need
Of a great anger; why should ribald songs
Scourge like impeaching eloquence? or why
Should either tax our needles for reply?





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