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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLUE BLOOD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography First Line: We thought at first, this man is a king for sure Last Line: Was lout, son of lout, by old lout, and was da to a lout! Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity | |||
We thought at first, this man is a king for sure, Or the branch of a mighty and ancient and famous lineage -- That silly, sulky, illiterate, black-avised boor Who was hatched by foreign vulgarity under a hedge! The good men of Clare were drinking his health in a flood, And gazing, with me, in awe at the princely lad; And asking each other from what bluest blueness of blood His daddy was squeezed, and the pa of the da of his dad? We waited there, gaping and wondering, anxiously, Until he'd stop eating, and let the glad tidings out; And the slack-jawed booby proved to the hilt that he Was lout, son of lout, by old lout, and was da to a lout! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CRESCENT MOON ON A CAT?ÇÖS COLLAR by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA DOCKERY AND SON by PHILIP LARKIN GENEALOGY OF FIRE by KHALED MATTAWA EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL by KHALED MATTAWA FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH by KHALED MATTAWA HISTORY OF MY FACE by KHALED MATTAWA BEGINNING WITH 1914 by LISEL MUELLER AN AMERICAN POEM by EILEEN MYLES TO THE DIASPORA: YOU DID NOT KNOW YOU WERE AFRIKA by GWENDOLYN BROOKS |
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