Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KEATS TOOK SNUFF', by ANONYMOUS First Line: So 'keats took snuff?' a few more years Last Line: "somewhere, if ever ghosts be gruff, / I trust some keats will 'give you snuff'" Subject(s): "keats, John (1795-1821);poetry & Poets;snuff (tobacco); | ||||||||
"Keats took snuff. ... It has been established by the praiseworthy editorial research of Mr. Burton Forman." So "Keats took snuff"? A few more years, When we are dead and famouseh? Will they record our pipes and beers, And if we smoked cigars or clay? Or will the world cry "Quantum suff." To tattle such as "Keats took snuff"? Perhaps some chronicler would wish To know what whisky we preferred, And if we ever dined on fish, Or only took the joint and bird. Such facts are quite as worthy stuff, Good chronicler, as "Keats took snuff." You answer: "But, if you were Keats" Tut! never mind your buts and ifs, Of little men record their meats, Their drinks, their troubles, and their tiffs, Of the great dead there's gold enough To spare us such as "Keats took snuff." Well, go your ways, you little folk, Who polish up the great folk's lives; Record the follies that they spoke, And paint their squabbles with their wives. Somewhere, if ever ghosts be gruff, I trust some Keats will "give you snuff." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SITTING BULL IN SERBIA by WILLIAM JAY SMITH TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA by PHILO PHILIPPA EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 1 by ALEXANDER POPE THE GIFT OF THE GODS by JOHN GODFREY SAXE TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH by ALFRED TENNYSON BEAU NASH by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER BEAU NASH AND THE ROMAN, OR THE TWO ERAS by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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