Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SCREEN IN THE LUMBER ROOM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, here it is, behind the box Last Line: I kissed you first behind it. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin | ||||||||
YES, here it is, behind the box, That puzzle wrought so neatly -- That paradise of paradox -- We once knew so completely; You see it? 'Tis the same, I swear, Which stood, that chill September, Beside your Aunt Lavinia's chair The year when ... You remember? Look, Laura, look! You must recall This florid 'Fairy's Bower,' This wonderful Swiss waterfall, And this old 'Leaning Tower'; And here's the 'Maiden of Cashmere,' And here is Bewick's 'Starling,' And here the dandy cuirassier You thought was 'such a Darling!' Your poor dear Aunt! you know her way She used to say this figure Reminded her of Count D'Orsay 'In all his youthful vigour'; And here's the 'cot beside the hill' We chose for habitation, The day that ... But I doubt if still You'd like the situation! Too damp -- by far! She little knew, Your guileless Aunt Lavinia, Those evenings when she slumbered through 'The Prince of Abyssinia,' That there were two beside her chair Who both had quite decided To see things in a rosier air Than Rasselas provided! Ah! men wore stocks in Britain's land, And maids short waists and tippets, When this old-fashioned screen was planned From hoarded scraps and snippets; But more -- far more, I think -- to me Than those who first designed it, Is this -- in Eighteen Seventy-Three I kissed you first behind it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A GARDEN SONG by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON BEFORE SEDAN by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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