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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIDDLERS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Nine feat fiddlers had good queen bess
Last Line: Fiddlers squealed shrill on their topmost c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: Nine feat fiddlers had good queen bess
Last Line: Fiddlers squealed shrill on their topmost c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Nine feat Fiddlers had good Queen Bess
To play her music as she did dress.
Behind an arras of horse and hound
They sate there scraping delightsome sound.
Spangled, bejewelled, her skirts would she
Draw o'er a petticoat of cramasie;
And soft each string like a bird would sing
In the starry dusk of evening.
Then slow from the deeps the crisscross bows,
Crooning like doves, arose and arose.
When, like a cage, did her ladies raise
A stiff rich splendour o'er her ribbed stays,
Like bumbling bees those four times nine
Fingers in melodies loud did pine;
Last came her coif and her violet shoon
And her virgin face shone out like the moon:
Oh, then in a rapture those three times three
Fiddlers squealed shrill on their topmost C.
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