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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO DISRAELI ON CONSERVATISM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You brilliant jew, / you bright particular chameleon, you Last Line: Sound sense is contraband. Variant Title(s): To A Strategist Subject(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) | |||
YOU brilliant Jew, You bright particular chameleon, you Regild a shabby fence. They understood Your stripes and particolored mind, who could Begrudge you prominence And call you cold! But when has prejudice been glad to hold A lizard in its hand— A subtle thing? To sense fed on a fine imagining, Sound sense is contraband. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 13. 1867 by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE "BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD" by ANONYMOUS TO DISRAELI by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, M.P., SELS. by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS I MAY, I MIGHT, I MUST by MARIANNE MOORE PEDANTIC LITERALIST by MARIANNE MOORE TO AN INTRA-MURAL RAT by MARIANNE MOORE NOTHING WILL CURE THE SICK LION BUT TO EAT AN APE' by MARIANNE MOORE A FOOL, A FOUL THING, A DISTRESSFUL LUNATIC by MARIANNE MOORE |
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