|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SNEEZING, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a moment, what a doubt! Last Line: Snuff is a delicious thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Sneezing | |||
WHAT a moment, what a doubt! All my nose is inside out, -- All my thrilling, tickling caustic, Pyramid rhinocerostic, Wants to sneeze and cannot do it! How it yearns me, thrills me, stings me, How with rapturous torment wrings me! Now says, "Sneeze, you fool, -- get through it." Shee -- shee -- oh! 't is most del-ishi -- Ishi -- ishi -- most del-ishi! (Hang it, I shall sneeze till spring!) Snuff is a delicious thing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SNEEZING by MARIE LOUISE ALLEN SNEEZE ON A MONDAY, YOU SNEEZE FOR DANGER by UNKNOWN SNEEZING [AFTER TAKING A PINCH OF SNUFF] by UNKNOWN ABOU BEN ADHEM by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT JAFFAR by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT MAHMOUD by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT ON HEARING A LITTLE MUSIC-BOX by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT RONDEAU by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT THE FISH, THE MAN, AND THE SPIRIT (COMPLETE) by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT |
| |