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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A MUSIC-HALL: 4. STANLEY TRAFFORD, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This of me well be said Last Line: With which, I wonder, shall I go %and drown it all in bad champagne? | |||
THIS of me may well be said Of a host as well as me: He held himself as great; he made His genius his own protégé." I loved the beauteous star- veiled truth , I strove and failed, and strove again. I wrote some verses in my youth, And knew two noted poets then. Now I wear a tinsel dress, Now I strum a gilt guitar; For I made my first success As "The Sentimental Star." I could be more glad than most, I was born for happiness . Since despair began to boast, No one ever tasted less. The sun, the stars, the moon, the sea I say no word of these-a sign, A little good sufficed for me, A rose's scent made heaven mine. But most some old thing newly thought By some fresh thinker pleased my sense, And strong, sweet words with rapture wrought, And tempered with intelligence. I craved not wealth, I craved not fame, Not even a home; but only time To dream the willing dreams that came, And keep their record in a rhyme. Wherefore I starved, and hither fell, A star in this the nether heaven. Without, I shine; within, is hell. What might have been had I still striven, Had I not sold my soul for bread! But what is this? I'm dull to-night; My heart has quite seduced my head; I'm talking poetry outright. Ha, ha! I'll sing my famous song, I feel I can recall its tone; The boy's dream suits the gas- lit throng! Mark "Words and music all my own." And then, oh, then! Houp-la! Just so! Selene, Lily, Mary-Jane? With which, I wonder, shall I go And drown it all in bad champagne? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A NORTHERN SUBURB by JOHN DAVIDSON A RUNNABLE STAG by JOHN DAVIDSON HOLIDAY AT HAMPTON COURT by JOHN DAVIDSON IN ROMNEY MARSH by JOHN DAVIDSON THIRTY BOB A WEEK by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD OF A COWARD by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD OF A NUN by JOHN DAVIDSON A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN by JOHN DAVIDSON |
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