Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AESTIVATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In candent ire the solar splendor flames Last Line: Depart, -- be off, -- excede, -- evade, -- erump! Variant Title(s): Intramural Aestivation; Or Summer In Town;aestivation: An Unpublished Poem Of My Late Latin Tutor Subject(s): Nonsense | ||||||||
IN candent ire the solar splendor flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes. How dulce to vive occult to mortal eyes, Dorm on the herb with none to supervise, Carp the suave berries from the crescent vine, And bibe the flow from longicaudate kine! To me, alas! no verdurous visions come, Save yon exiguous pool's conferva-scum, -- No concave vast repeats the tender hue That laves my milk-jug with celestial blue! Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! Oh, might I vole to some umbrageous clump, -- Depart, -- be off, -- excede, -- evade, -- erump! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A TRAGIC STORY by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO HUMPTY DUMPTY RECITATION [OR, SONG] by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON JABBERWOCKY by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK: FIT 3. THE BAKER'S TALE by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MY UNCLE ARLY by EDWARD LEAR THE AKOND [OR, AKHOND] OF SWAT by EDWARD LEAR THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO by EDWARD LEAR A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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