Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITH A COPY OF CALVERLEY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, lady, you applaud my rhymes Last Line: Me up! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
WHEN, lady, you applaud my rhymes Appearing in the public prints, (As you have done a dozen times), I wince. A bead (or two) bepearls my brow; I modestly say "Pooh!" or "Tush!" I'd blush, I think, if I knew how To blush. Once, when your praise was too absurd, I spoke of Calverley. With vim And scorn you said: "I never heard Of him." Tottered my reason, shook my nerve, I stifled an uprising sob. "Has she," I wondered, "heard of Irv- In Cobb?" Take, lady, then, this blithesome book My friend, philosopher, and guide And don't, I pray, forget to look Inside. How fair the rhymes! The verse how fresh! Like "one clear harp in divers tones." Read "Flight," "Forever,"oh, read "Prec- Ious Stones"! Here, all this treasured tome throughout, Shall you find undiluted joy. You, in your classic phrase, will shout "Oh, boy!" Yet pricks the thorn upon the rose; And lurks the wormwood in the cup: Calverley. ... Lady, how he shows Me up! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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