Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face -- Lean, large-boned, curved of beak, and touched with race, Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable as the sea, The brown eyes radiant with a vivacity -- There shines a brilliant and romantic grace, A spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly critical, Buffoon and poet, lover and sensualist: A deal of Ariel, just a streak of Puck, Much Antony, of Hamlet most of all, And something of the Shorter-Catechist. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SOLDIER'S GRAVE by JOHN ALBEE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 6. LOVE'S DESPAIR by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) AN EVENING PRAYER by C. MAUDE BATTERSBY HATED by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON PSALM 88 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |