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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON OXFORD, by JOHN KEATS Poet's Biography
First Line: The gothic looks solemn
Last Line: Then each on a leg or thigh fastens.
Variant Title(s): Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
Subject(s): Oxford University
First Line: The gothic looks solemn
Last Line: Then each on a leg or thigh fastens.
Variant Title(s): Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
Subject(s): Oxford University
(A PARODY)
I.
THE Gothic looks solemn,
The plain Doric column
Supports an old Bishop and Crosier;
The mouldering arch,
Shaded o'er by a larch
Stands next door to Wilson the Hosier.
II.
Vice--that is, by turns,--
O'er pale faces mourns
The black tassell'd trencher and common hat;
The Chantry boy sings,
The Steeple-bell rings,
And as for the Chancellor--dominat.
III.
There are plenty of trees,
And plenty of ease,
And plenty of fat deer for Parsons;
And when it is venison,
Short is the benison,--
Then each on a leg or thigh fastens.
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SONNET: 15. AT OXFORD, 1786 by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD by DONALD HALL
POEM ABOUT OXFORD by PHILIP LARKIN
OXFORD, THIRTY YEARS AFTER by JOHN UPDIKE
THE SCHOLAR GIPSY by MATTHEW ARNOLD
THE SPIRES OF OXFORD by WINIFRED MARY LETTS
THE TALENTED MAN by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED
SONNET: ON HAVING DINED AT TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD by JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE
THE BALLAD OF MY FRIEND by J. D. BEAZLEY
LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825 by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES
A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS