Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE TO FORTUNE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady with the bandaged eye! Last Line: T were cruelty to tumble down. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fortune; New York City - 19th Century | ||||||||
FAIR lady with the bandaged eye! I'll pardon all thy scurvy tricks, So thou wilt cut me, and deny Alike thy kisses and thy kicks: I'm quite contented as I am, Have cash to keep my duns at bay, Can choose between beefsteaks and ham, And drink Madeira every day. My station is the middle rank, My fortune - just a competence -- Ten thousand in the Franklin Bank, And twenty in the six per cents; No amorous chains my heart enthrall, I neither borrow, lend, nor sell; Fearless I roam the City Hall, And bite my thumb at Sheriff Bell. The horse that twice a week I ride At Mother Dawson's eats his fill; My books at Goodrich's abide, My country-seat is Weehawk hill; My morning lounge is Eastburn's shop, At Poppleton's I take my lunch, Niblo prepares my mutton-chop, And Jennings makes my whiskey-punch. When merry, I the hours amuse By squibbing Bucktails, Guards, and Balls, And when I'm troubled with the blues Damn Clinton and abuse canals: Then, Fortune, since I ask no prize, At least preserve me from thy frown! The man who don't attempt to rise 'T were cruelty to tumble down. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRONX, 1818 by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE MANHATTAN ARMING by WALT WHITMAN FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER CITY LYRICS by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS TWO WOMEN by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THE 'STAY AT HOME'S' PLAINT, 1878 by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. EMPORIUM VERSUS NEW YORK, 1854 by JACOB BIGELOW THE MARCH OF THE REGIMENT, 1861 by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL ALNWICK CASTLE by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK |
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