Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GOLD ROOM - AN IDYL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: They come from mansions far up-town Last Line: Whom you can draw a check on! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Rhyme | ||||||||
THEY come from mansions far up-town, And from their country villas, And some, Charybdis' gulf whirls down, And some fall into Scylla's. Lo! here young Paris climbs the stairs As if their slope were Ida's, And here his golden touch declares The ass's ears of Midas. It seems a Bacchic, brawling rout To every business-scorner, But such, methinks, must be an "out," Or has not made a "corner." In me the rhythmic gush revives; I feel a classic passion: We, also, lead Arcadian lives, Though in a Broad-Street fashion. Old Battos, here, 's a leading bull, And Diomed a bear is, And near them, shearing bankers' wool, Strides the Tiltonian Charis; And Atys, there, has gone to smash, His every bill protested, While Cleon's eyes with comfort flash, I have his funds invested! Mehercle! 'tis the same thing yet As in the days of Pindar: The Isthmian race, the dust and sweat, The prizewhy, what's to hinder? And if I twang my lyre at times, They did so then, I reckon; That man's the best at modern rhymes Whom you can draw a check on! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CATCH A LITTLE RHYME by EVE MERRIAM ESSAY: THE INFINITE ASSONANCES WITHIN by ELENI SIKELIANOS SWEATER WEATHER: A LOVE SONG TO LANGUAGE by SHARON BRYAN A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON A RHYME by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ERRING IN COMPANY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE BARD'S EXCUSE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG by BAYARD TAYLOR NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR |
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