When Sir Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell Where Prosperine first fell, Blue as the gendarmerie were the waves of the sea, (Rocking and shocking the barmaid). Nobody comes to give him his rum but the Rim of the sky hippopotamus-glum Enhances the chances to bless with a benison Alfred Lord Tennyson crossing the bar laid With cold vegetation from pale deputations Of temperance workers (all signed In Memoriam) Hoping with glory to trip up the Laureate's feet, (Moving in classical meters) ... Like Balaclava, the lava came down from the Roof, and the sea's blue wooden gendarmerie Took them in charge while Beelzebub roared for his rum. ... None of them come! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYPOCRISY by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) PROMETHEUS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE ABSINTHE-DRINKER by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 32. AL-KHABIR by EDWIN ARNOLD A SPRING CAROL by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER WHAT THE MOON KNOWS by RICHARD BEHM THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES by LAURENCE BINYON |