Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY CAT, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poet's Biography First Line: Half loving-kindliness, and half-disdain Last Line: With sombre, sea-green gaze inscrutable. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Animals; Cats | ||||||||
HALF loving-kindliness and half disdain, Thou comest to my call serenely suave, With humming speech and gracious gestures grave, In salutation courtly and urbane; Yet must I humble me thy grace to gain, For wiles may win thee though no arts enslave, And nowhere gladly thou abidest save Where naught disturbs the concord of thy reign. Sphinx of my quiet hearth! who deign'st to dwell Friend of my toil, companion of mine ease, Thine is the lore of Ra and Rameses; That men forget dost thou remember well, Beholden still in blinking reveries With sombre, sea-green gaze inscrutable. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING by HICOK. BOB THE LONELY MAN by RANDALL JARRELL IN SEVERAL COLORS by JANE KENYON OPENING HER JEWEL BOX by WILLIAM MATTHEWS HAZARD FACES A SUNDAY IN THE DECLINE by WILLIAM MEREDITH A SONG OF LONDON by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON |
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