IN Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavements fanged with murderous stones, And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches, -- I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well-defined and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES by FRANCOIS VILLON THE CUPBOARD by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE by SIDNEY LANIER CURFEW by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ANACTORIA by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE MANSONG: CHORAL by MARCUS ADENEY THE KNIGHTS: DEMOS AND HIS FLATTERER by ARISTOPHANES |