Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUNG POET'S ADVICE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You should study the bards of today | ||||||||
You should study the bards of to-day Who in England are now all the rage; You should try to be piquant and gay: Your lines are too solemn and sage. You should try to fill only a page, Or two at the most with your lay; And revive the quaint verse of an age That is fading forgotten away. Study Lang, Gosse, and Dobson, I pray- That their rhymes and their fancies engage Your thought to be witty as they. You must stand on the popular stage. In the bars of an old fashioned cage We must prison the birds of our May, To carol the notes of an age That is fading forgotten away. Now this is a 'Ballade'-I say, So one stanza more to our page, But the "Vers de Société," If you can are the best for your 'wage.' Though the purists may fall in a rage That two rhymes go thrice in one lay, You may passably echo an age That is fading forgotten away. Envoy. Bard-heed not the seer and the sage, 'Afflatus' and Nature don't pay; But stick to the forms of an age That is fading forgotten away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BOBOLINKS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH THE PINES AND THE SEA by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH A CHILD-SAVIOUR (A TRUE STORY) by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH A NIGHT-PICTURE by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH A POET'S SOLILOQUY by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH A QUESTION by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH AFTER THE CENTENNIAL (A HOPE) by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH AFTER-LIFE by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH AN OLD CAT'S CONFESSIONS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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