To see my love suffices me. -- Ballades in Blue China. SOME men to carriages aspire ; On some the costly hansoms wait ; Some seek a fly, on job or hire ; Some mount the trotting steed, elate. I envy not the rich and great, A wandering minstrel, poor and free, I am contented with my fate -- An omnibus suffices me. In winter days of rain and mire I find within a corner strait ; The 'busmen know me and my lyre From Brompton to the Bull-and-Gate. When summer comes, I mount in state The topmost summit, whence I see Croesus look up, compassionate -- An omnibus suffices me. I mark, untroubled by desire, Lucullus' phaeton and its freight. The scene whereof I cannot tire, The human tale of love and hate, The city pageant, early and late Unfolds itself, rolls by, to be A pleasure deep and delicate. An omnibus suffices me. Princess, your splendour you require, I, my simplicity ; agree Neither to rate lower nor higher. An omnibus suffices me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONGS OUT OF SORROW: REFUGE by SARA TEASDALE KEENAN'S CHARGE by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP THE GOOD SHEPHERD by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO CUPID MISTAKEN by MATTHEW PRIOR BROKEN MUSIC by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH INSUFFICIENCY (1) by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |