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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE LADY DORAOTHY NEVILL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is horace his life. I have ventured to draw him
Last Line: From you, his descendant, I ask absolution.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Walpole, Horatio; Orford, 4th Earl Of
First Line: Here is horace his life. I have ventured to draw him
Last Line: From you, his descendant, I ask absolution.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Walpole, Horatio; Orford, 4th Earl Of
HERE is HORACE his Life. I have ventured to draw him
As the Berrys, the Conways, the Montagus saw him:
Very kind to his friends, to the rest only so-so;
A Talker, Fine Gentleman, Wit, Virtuoso;
With -- running through all his sham-Gothic gim-crackery --
A dash of Sevigne, Saint-Simon and Thackeray.
For errors of ignorance, haste, execution,
From You, his descendant, I ask absolution.
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