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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOLCE FAR NIENTE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, my chum, my trusty crony! Last Line: Two loafers couched in perfect bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Friendship; Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence | |||
MY friend, my chum, my trusty crony! We are designed, it seems to me, To be two happy lazzaroni, On sunshine fed, and macaroni, Far off by some Sicilian sea. From dawn to eve in the happy land, No duty on us but to lie -- Straw-hatted on the shining sand, With bronzing chest and arm and hand -- Beneath the blue Italian sky. There, with the mountains idly glassing Their purple splendors in the sea -- To watch the white-winged vessels passing (Fortunes for busier fools amassing), This were a heaven to you and me. Our meerschaums coloring cloudy brown, Two young girls coloring with a blush, The blue waves with a silver crown, The mountain shadows dropping down, And all the air in perfect hush. Thus should we lie in the happy land, Nor fame, nor power, nor fortune miss; Straw-hatted on the shining sand, With bronzing chest and arms and hand, -- Two loafers couched in perfect bliss. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAINST WHATEVER IT IS THAT'S ENCROACHING by CHARLES SIMIC NIKOS AT 42 by REETIKA VAZIRANI ODE ON INDOLENCE by JOHN KEATS IDLENESS by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL VAIN EXCUSE by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE |
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