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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAISE OF FAMOUS MEN: 5. LEWIS CARROLL, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poet's Biography
First Line: As for alice let her stand
Last Line: Love will make them queens.
Subject(s): Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898); Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
First Line: As for alice let her stand
Last Line: Love will make them queens.
Subject(s): Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898); Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
AS for Alice let her stand,
where these shadows pass
into those of Wonderland
through the looking-glass,
on the other side of things
teaching that chess means
that, though pawns cannot be kings,
love will make them queens.
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