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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO LAURENCE HUTTON, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no 'mighty purpose' in this book
Last Line: And little else of mission than to please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Hutton, Laurence (b. 1843)
First Line: There is no 'mighty purpose' in this book
Last Line: And little else of mission than to please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Hutton, Laurence (b. 1843)
THERE is no 'mighty purpose' in this book.
Of that I warn you at the opening page,
Lest haply 'twixt the leaves you careless look
And finding nothing to reform the age,
Fall with the rhyme and rhymer in a rage.
Let others prate of problems and of powers;
I bring but fancies born of idle hours,
That striving only after Art and Ease,
Have scarcely more of moral than the flowers
And little else of mission than to please.
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