Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KAL. APR., by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY


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First Line: I hate your vulgarian ill-mannered
Last Line: Do lend me an as!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Boats; Latin Language; Racing


I hate your vulgarian ill-mannered
Who goes by himself to the Race!
Maecenas has gone to his Panhard
Nor offered his Horace a place:
Then come (for the storms that are wintry
Have vanished afar from the lea)
Qua linter contendit cum lintre,
My Phyllis, with me!

The Cive with his spouse and his daughters,
The swain and concomitant nymph
Natate, in a cymb, on the waters
Or curr by the defluent lymph, --
And see, 'twixt their knees with their ventres
(You can be correct, when you choose, --
Quo, Musa, poetam impellis?)
The 'Varsity crews!

O doomed to consume by your coaches
Raw rations of obstinate ox,
O rent by the raucous reproaches
Of clamitant captain and cox,
Ye heirs of the memories famous
That cling to your classical streams,
Quos misit aut Isis, aut Camus,
Incumb on your remes!

Heu! auri funesta cupido
Has wholly bereft me of tin,
Dum actis diurnis confido
Which told me the boat that would win!
Dire day of the daft and the silly,
Curst kalends of guile and of gas!
O rerum dulcissima Phylii,
Do lend me an As!





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