WITH webs of cool Chain mail and his stout heart, is not the gander Mocked, and ignorantly designated yet, To play the fool? "Egyptian vultures clean as cherubim, All ivory and jet," are they most foul? And nature's child, That most precocious water bird, the loon—why Is he foremost in the madman's alphabet; Why is he styled In folly's catalogue, distressful lunatic? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A DARK GIRL by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by ROBERT FROST IN HOSPITAL: 28. DISCHARGED by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE MALDIVE SHARK by HERMAN MELVILLE COLUMBUS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE by ALFRED TENNYSON THE WINDOW; OR, THE SONG OF THE WRENS: THE LETTER by ALFRED TENNYSON |