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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PUCK, TO QUEEN MAB, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS Poet's Biography
First Line: Ods pitkins, he who at rhymes is a bad
Last Line: The jolliest, rollicking, frolicking song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair
Subject(s): Yale University
First Line: Ods pitkins, he who at rhymes is a bad
Last Line: The jolliest, rollicking, frolicking song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair
Subject(s): Yale University
ODS PITKINS, he who at rhymes is a bad
Never would dare write a verse to Queen Mab.
The words would seem empty, the slow meter wrong;
For she is herself an ethereal song.
A song? Nay; a chorus of cupids petite!
The soloist blushing, her rounded lips sweet.
A wonderful melody soundeth each cheek;
When pale, in a sad, solemn music they speak.
But, Mab, only blush, and there tumbles along
The jolliest, rollicking, frolicking song.
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