|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PHILISTINE, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY Poet's Biography
First Line: Yester'en while strolling through a marish dale
Last Line: Throb gloriously and tingle through thy tail.
Subject(s): Philistines
First Line: Yester'en while strolling through a marish dale
Last Line: Throb gloriously and tingle through thy tail.
Subject(s): Philistines
YESTER'EN while strolling through a marish dale
I marked a thistle-feeding ass, and said:
"Poor patient drudge, how will thy worth avail
To lift thy name, while thou art thistle-fed?
See, here are cytisus and galingale —
Blooms of Theocritus; crop these instead:
So haply may some Genius in thy head
Throb gloriously and tingle through thy tail.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
VAGABONDS by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON
MY THEME: 2 by GEORGE MEREDITH
THE PHILISTINE AND THE BOHEMIAN by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE
THE UNITED STATES TO THE FILIPINOS by JOHN BANISTER TABB
THE PHILISTINE'S LAMENT by W. C. A. WALLAR
A CRICKET BOWLER by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY
A FOOTBALL PLAYER by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY
A SHEPHERD MAIDEN by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY
A SICILIAN NIGHT by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY
LOVE'S DELAY by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY