AH! who has seen the mailed lobster rise, Clap her broad wings, and, soaring, claim the skies? When did the owl, descending from her bower, Crop, 'midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flower; Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb, In the salt wave, and, fish-like, try to swim? The same with plants, potatoes 'tatoes breed, The costly cabbage springs from cabbage-seed; Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed; Nor e'er did cooling cucumbers presume To flower like myrtle, or like violets bloom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEATH SNIPS PROUD MEN by CARL SANDBURG TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848 by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE TEMPEST: PROLOGUE by JOHN DRYDEN ONLY WAITING by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE A SOLDIER'S GRAVE by JOHN ALBEE |