Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY DANCE, by EDITH SITWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That hobnailed goblin, the bobtailed hob Last Line: Come away! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers | ||||||||
THAT hobnailed goblin, the bob-tailed Hob, Said, "It is time I began to rob." For strawberries bob, hob-nob with the pearls Of cream (like the curls of the dairy girls), And flushed with the heat and fruitish-ripe Are the gowns of the maids who dance to the pipe. Chase a maid? She's afraid! "Go gather a bob-cherry kiss from a tree, But don't, I prithee, come bothering me!" She said -- As she fled. The snouted satyrs drink clouted cream 'Neath the chestnut-trees as thick as a dream; So I went, And leant, Where none but the doltish coltish wind Nuzzled my hand for what it could find. As it neighed, I said, "Don't touch me, sir, don't touch me, I say, You'll tumble my strawberries into the hay." Those snow-mounds of silver that bee, the spring, Has sucked his sweetness from, I will bring With fair-haired plants and with apples chill For the great god Pan's high altar . . . I'll spill Not one! So, in fun, We rolled on the grass and began to run Chasing that gaudy satyr the Sun; Over the haycocks, away we ran Crying, "Here be berries as sunburnt as Pan!" But Silenus Has seen us. . . . He runs like the rough satyr Sun. Come away! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAMED DANCER DIES OF PHOSPHORUS POISONING by RICHARD HOWARD ROSE AND MURRAY by CONRAD AIKEN A DANCER'S LIFE by DONALD JUSTICE DANCING WITH THE DOG by SUSAN KENNEDY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS THE CHILDREN DANCING by LAURENCE BINYON AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST by EDITH SITWELL |
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