Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BOND STREET, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS First Line: Lavender fresh are your looks Last Line: Getting a hat! Subject(s): London; Streets; Avenues | ||||||||
LAVENDER fresh are your looks Bond Street, in May-time; London that's laid down her books, London in playtime; Sunlit eleven o'clock, Jack, ay, and Jill, Furbelow, feather and frock, Fashion and frill! Lilac'd and lawned go your girls, So many Graces, Soft as the dawn, or the pearls Caught in their laces; Lo, it was Celia laughed Silver afar; Here breathed a violet waft, There a cigar! Men who are fêted and fed, Folk who've come croppers, Men who fill lions with lead, Surbiton shoppers; Thus does the whirligig go Blithe as a bell; Soothly it seems that your show Runs rather well. Yet on this Monday you've more How shall I term it? Éclat than ever before, Yes, I affirm it; Why so, I hardly can say, Saving 'tis that Dolly is up for the day, Getting a hat! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHINATOWN BLUES by CLARENCE MAJOR KEEP DRIVING by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET by DAVID WAGONER ANGLOSAXON STREET by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY SONNET: 24. THE STREET by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A STEP AWAY FROM THEM by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |
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