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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE FOX; FOR ANN PEARN, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said old sir jason, the red-gold fox Last Line: Neath the wall of the tall nodding town of the shade. Subject(s): Clowns; Comedy; Laughter | |||
Said old Sir Jason, the red-gold fox: "The gardeners asleep, I will pick the locks: His smooth leaves murmur like dark green seas,— I will run beneath his nectarine trees. But when it is dawn and the reynard-hued Sun Will run through the tall empty town of the corn And on my Gold Fleece gold spangles are born Of the jangling dew, Where the old cock crew, Like that long-fleeced fox the Sun I will run And my jangling gown Will leave that tall town With a rank and dank ragged-robin smell. There is none to listen and none to tell, As I tumble the old King toppling down. For only my vixen wife will hark Where the leaves of the wood are glittering dark As the armoured men the King saw grow From the earth ten thousand years ago. When the kingly cock In his feathered smock With that five-hinged sword of wood, his crow, Through the forest thrusts, I'll overthrow This ancient King in his red-gold crown; For now he is only a country clown And his smock is a rustic long night-gown, And a five-hinged sword of wood will not Awaken a world that has fallen to rot A world that's afraid And pretends to be dead— 'Neath the wall of the tall nodding town of the shade. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GREAT CAROUSAL by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER by JOHN UPDIKE LAUGHING SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE HER MERRIMENT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES SONG OF THREE SMILES by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN MANDRAKE'S SONG; FRAGMENT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES THE LAUGHING WOMAN by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THIS IS THE END by JEAN DE BOSSCHERE AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST by EDITH SITWELL |
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