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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUT OF PETRONIUS, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER Poet's Biography First Line: The bird, that's fetch't from phasis floud Last Line: Unlesse't be rare, what's thought upon? Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae Subject(s): Taste (sense) | |||
The bird, that's fetch't from Phasis floud, Or choicest hennes of Africk-brood; These please our palates. and why these? 'Cause they can but seldome please. Whil'st the goose soe goodly white, And the drake yeeld noe delight, Though his wings conceited hewe Paint each feather, as if new. These for vulgar stomacks be, And rellish not of rarity. But the dainty Scarus, sought In farthest clime; what e're is bought With shipwracks toile, Oh, that is sweet, 'Cause the quicksands hanselld it. The pretious Barbill, now groune rife, Is cloying meat. How stale is Wife? Deare wife hath ne're a handsome letter, Sweet mistris sounds a great deale better. Rose quakes at name of Cinnamon. Unlesse't be rare, what's thought upon? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TONGUE-TIED by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE ENGLISH FLAVORS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TRIOLETS IN THE ARGOLID by RACHEL HADAS OF TASTE; AN ESSAY, SELECTION by JAMES CAWTHORN AN EPICUREAN by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS EPISTLE TO MR. FOX, FROM HAMPTON COURT: NATURE QUERIES by JOHN HERVEY (1696-1743) WHEN ALL MY FIVE AND COUNTRY SENSES SEE by DYLAN THOMAS NOT I by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON EPICUREAN PORTRAITS by ELISA ALBO KEEPING ENDLESS HOLIDAY by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER |
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