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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO A CLAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poet's Biography First Line: Inglorious friend! Most confident I am Last Line: Declares, o clam! Thy case is shocking hard! Subject(s): Clams | |||
INGLORIOUS friend! most confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being "happy as a clam!" What though thy shell protects thy fragile head From the sharp bailiffs of the briny sea? Thy valves are, sure, no safety-valves to thee, While rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, -- as foemen take their spoil, -- Far from thy friends and family to roam; Forced, like a Hessian, from thy native home, To meet destruction in a foreign broil! Though thou art tender, yet thy humble bard Declares, O clam! thy case is shocking hard! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISAPPELLATION by STEPHANIE L. BINCKLI MY NEW CLAM by STEPHANIE L. BINCKLI PRECIOUS STONES; AN INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY CLAM DIGGERS ON IPSWICH FLATS by JENNIE F. CHASE ADVICE TO A CLAM-DIGGER; AN AMERICAN GEORGIC by WILBERT SNOW WOMEN WHO ARE POETS IN MY LAND by BLAGA DIMITROVA SPRING NIGHT by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS by PABLO MEDINA DANGER OF DIGGING FOR CLAMS by LENORA STEELE DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY by JOHN GODFREY SAXE |
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