Gladstone was still respected, When John Ruskin produced "King's Treasuries"; Swinburne And Rossetti still abused. Fetid Buchanan lifted up his voice When that faun's head of hers Became a pastime for Painters and adulterers. The Burne-Jones cartons Have preserved her eyes; Still, at the Tate, they teach Cophetua to rhapsodize; Thin like brook water, With a vacant gaze. The English Rubaiyat was stillborn In those days. The thin, clear gaze, the same Still darts out faunlike from the half-ruined face, Questing and passive . . . "Ah, poor Jenny's case . . ." Bewildered that a world Shows no surprise At her last maquero's Adulteries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. 6. IN THE CEMETERY by THOMAS HARDY UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER CONSTANT FRIEND DOCTOR DONNE, DEAN OF PAUL'S by HENRY KING (1592-1669) TWICE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS |