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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMFORT, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS
First Line: Who would care to pass his life away
Last Line: Malgré alfred tennyson.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Variant Title(s): Lotus Eating
Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Joy; Delight; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
First Line: Who would care to pass his life away
Last Line: Malgré alfred tennyson.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer
Variant Title(s): Lotus Eating
Subject(s): Comfort; Happiness; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Joy; Delight; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron
WHO would care to pass his life away
Of the Lotos-land a dreamful denizen,—
Lotos-islands in a waveless bay,
Sung by Alfred Tennyson?
Who would care to be a dull new-comer
Far across the wild sea's wide abysses,
Where, about the earth's three thousandth summer,
Passed divine Ulysses?
Rather give me coffee, art, a book,
From my windows a delicious sea-view,
Southdown mutton, somebody to cook,—
"Music?"—I believe you.
Strawberry icebergs in the summer time,—
But of elm-wood many a massive splinter,
Good ghost stories, and a classic rhyme,
For the nights of winter.
Now and then a friend and some Sauterne,
Now and then a haunch of Highland venison,
And for Lotos-land I'll never yearn,
Malgré Alfred Tennyson.
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