Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, IN ANSWER TO HIS 'ON READING PURPLE EAST', by WILLIAM WATSON


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TO THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, IN ANSWER TO HIS 'ON READING PURPLE EAST', by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Idle the churlish leagues 'twixt you and me
Last Line: Sang not alone, for with me was your muse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907); Novels & Novelists; Poetry & Poets


IDLE the churlish leagues 'twixt you and me,
Singer most rich in charm, most rich in grace!
What though I cannot see you face to face?
Allow my boast, that one in blood are we!
One by that secret consanguinity
Which binds the children of melodious race,
And knows not the crude accident of place,
And cold interposition of the sea.
You are my noble kinsman in the lyre:
Forgive the kinsman's freedom that I use,
Adventuring these imperfect thanks, who late,
Singing a people's woe, in wonder and ire, --
Against me half the wise and all the great, --
Sang not alone, for with me was your muse.





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