Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A COUNTRY COUSIN, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel cousin kate, you ask me Last Line: In an album out of town. Subject(s): Country Life; Cousins; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
CRUEL Cousin Kate, you ask me For a lyric or a lay. How tyrannical to task me, Cousin Kate, in such a way. Pardon me, I pray, and pity (Oh, do anything but frown!) For I can't be wise or witty In an album out of town No, my Pegasus will canter Only here on civic stones; In the country I instanter Come to grief and broken bones. Be it mine to sing the city, Where I seek my mild renown; But I can't be wise or witty In an album out of town. Small my power and small my will is Rural sympathies to win; Ludgate my sublimest hill is, And my fields are Lincoln's Inn All the Muses in committee, Pouring inspiration down, Cannot make me wise or witty In an album out of town. Lonaon life in many phases I describe for Cockney friends; Lead me out among the daisies And my versifying ends. I can favor with a ditty Jones, and Robinson, and Brown But I can't be wise or witty In an album out of town. Cousin, hear my supplication; Give me something else to do. Is there aught in all creation I would no attempt for you? Ask my life, my cruel Kitty: Bid me hang, or bid me drown; But I can't be wise or witty In an album out of town. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB THE TWINS by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH |
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