OF stature short. Napoleon-like in brow. Pompous of presence. Passing bright of eye. Immense of shoulder. And in stomach, too, Gargantuan. Of fools contemptuous, Yet swift with warm and generous sympathy For wit in friends. Wealthy, to over-plus, Of brain and fierce creative energy. Cynic and sinner. Strangely credulous. Unique in unreliability. Body and soul unceasingly at war. Gluttonous, gross ... with aims oracular. Pirate of Plots, and utterer of ordure. His passions twin ... alcohol, literature. He wrote a book which made the critics retch; But, as he frankly forecast, "bound to fetch The bloody Bishops." And one came to preach— Alas!—about it as a 'masterpiece' ... Such, poor Guy Thorne. His most amazing mind Mirrored, in equal measure, the unwise and kind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SURFACES AND MASKS; 1 by CLARENCE MAJOR SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE NEGRO'S TRAGEDY by CLAUDE MCKAY DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT by MARIANNE MOORE |