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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DISTRESSED POET, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One knows the scene so well, - a touch Last Line: We feel that she has been. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | |||
A SUGGESTION FROM HOGARTH ONE knows the scene so well, -- a touch, A word, brings back again That room, not garnished overmuch, In gusty Drury Lane; The empty safe, the child that cries, The kittens on the coat, The good-wife with her patient eyes, The milkmaid's tuneless throat; And last, in that mute woe sublime, The luckless verseman's air: The 'Bysshe,' the foolscap and the rhyme, -- The Rhyme ... that is not there! Poor Bard! to dream the verse inspired -- With dews Castalian wet -- Is built from cold abstractions squired By 'Bysshe,' his epithet! Ah! when she comes, the glad-eyed Muse, No step upon the stair Betrays the guest we can't refuse, -- She takes us unaware; And tips with fire our lyric lips, And sets our hearts aflame, And then, like Ariel, off she trips, And none knows how she came. Only, henceforth, for right or wrong, By some dull sense grown keen, Some blank hour blossomed into song, We feel that she has been. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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