Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poet's Biography First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright Last Line: and some years hence he'll send the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology | ||||||||
O NYMPH, compared with whose young bloom Hebe's herself an ancient fright; May these gay shells find grace and room Both in your baby-house and sight! 'Shells! What are shells?' you ask, admiring With stare half pleasure half surprise; And fly with nature's art, enquiring In dear mamma's all-speaking eyes. Shells, fairest Anne, are playthings, made By a brave god called Father Ocean, Whose frown from pole to pole's obeyed, Commands the waves, and stills their motion. From that old sire a daughter came, As like mamma as blue to blue; And, like mamma, the sea-born dame An urchin bore, not unlike you. For him fond grand-papa compels The floods to furnish such a state Of corals and of cockleshells, Would turn a little lady's pate. The chit has tons of baubles more; His nurs'ry's stuffed with doves and sparrows; And littered is its azure floor With painted quivers, bows and arrows. Spread, spread your frock; you must be friends; His toys shall fill your lap and breast: Today the boy this sample sends, And some years hence he'll send the rest. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TANKA DIARY (2) by HARRYETTE MULLEN APPRECIATION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO SOME LADIES [ON RECEIVING A CURIOUS SHELL] by JOHN KEATS ON SOME SHELLS FOUND INLAND by TRUMBULL STICKNEY WITH A NANTUCKET SHELL by CHARLES HENRY WEBB AN ENGLISH SHELL by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON SEA LAVENDER by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN ANNA GREVILLE, COUNTESS TEMPLE, ... POET LAUREATE TO KING OF FAIRIES by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE LEFT ON THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBURY'S TOILET, ... FINDING HER FROM HOME by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE |
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