EXQUISITE wines and comestibles, From Slater, and Fortnum and Mason; Billiard, ecarte, and chess tables; Water in vast marble basin; Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous; One friend, who is fond of a distich, And doesn't get too syllogistic; A valet, who knows the complete art Of service -- a maiden, his sweetheart: Give me these, in some rural pavilion, And I'll envy no Rothschild his million. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LORD ALCOHOL; SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES HIS PRAYER FOR ABSOLUTION by ROBERT HERRICK THE PILLAR OF FAME by ROBERT HERRICK HAUNTED HOUSES by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TWICE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |