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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WELCOME TO MARK TWAIN, by LOUIS FRECHETTE First Line: Come, sing, my muse, our honoured guest Last Line: With fine old english humour! Subject(s): Humorists; Laughter; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens) | |||
Come, sing, my Muse, our honoured Guest Before the toasts are started Of all philosophers the best, Because the lightest hearted. He well deserves a golden rhyme To-night, and oft hereafter, Who roused, while laughing at his time, Its sympathetic laughter. Life's dearest charm in laughter lies, And, if this creed were common, The universe would scarce comprise A sulky man or woman. To laugh is man's divinest art: Andloud, or gayly chaffing The truest echo from the heart Of either sex islaughing. Let us then banish from our feast All thoughts of melancholy, And glorify the quaint high priest Of fancy, fun and folly. Thy health, Mark Twain! Of wits like thee I would there were a few more, To temper subtle French esprit With fine old English humour! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAST LAUGH by ROBERT PENN WARREN MARK TWAIN: A PIPE DREAM by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD A DOUBLE-BARRELLED SONNET TO MARK TWAIN: 1. FIRST BARREL by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS A DOUBLE-BARRELLED SONNET TO MARK TWAIN: 2. SECOND BARREL by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS THE AMERICAN JOKE (READ AT THE BIRTHDAY DINNER TO S.L. CLEMENS) by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS MARK TWAIN AND JOAN OF ARC by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY TO MARK TWAIN by HENRY VAN DYKE WHEN THE MISSISSIPPI FLOWED IN INDIANA by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY |
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