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...HARRY PLOUGHMAN by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS ON MICHAEL ANGELO by WASHINGTON ALLSTON SHELLEY'S DEATH by ALFRED AUSTIN SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 34. FAIRY LAND by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) WHAT THE MOON KNOWS by RICHARD BEHM |