Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HUNTING SONG, by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a health to every sportsman Last Line: And when fortune smiles a score of friends like those around us here. | ||||||||
Here's a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord, If his heart be true, I care not what his pocket may afford; And may he ever pleasantly each gallant sport pursue, If he takes his liquor fairly, and his fences fairly, too. He cares not for the bubbles of Fortune's fickle tide, Who like Bendigo can battle, and like Olliver can ride. He laughs at those who caution, at those who chide he'll frown, As he clears a five-foot paling, or he knocks a peeler down. The dull, cold world may blame us, boys! but what care we the while, If coral lips will cheer us, and bright eyes on us smile? For beauty's fond caresses can most tenderly repay The weariness and trouble of many an anxious day. Then fill your glass, and drain it, too, with all your heart and soul, To the best of sports -- The Fox-hunt, The Fair Ones, and The Bowl, To a stout heart in adversity through every ill to steer, And when Fortune smiles a score of friends like those around us here. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BASKET OF FLOWERS by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON A DEDICATION TO THE AUTHOR OF HOLMBY HOUSE by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON A FRAGMENT by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON A SONG OF AUTUMN by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON AN EXILE'S FAREWELL by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON ARS LONGA by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON ASHTAROTH: A DRAMATIC LYRIC, PART 1 by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON ASHTAROTH: A DRAMATIC LYRIC, PART 2 by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON BELLONA by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON BORROWED PLUMES by ADAM LINDSAY GORDON |
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