"ARE @3you@1 a LAMPOON man? Not really! Oh, dear, though, I know you must be! That's why you've been smiling so queerly -- My goodness, you're studying @3me!@1 Now, @3what@1 have I said that is funny? And oh, @3will@1 you publish it soon?" 'Tis thus, with a voice sweet as honey, She mentions the HARVARD LAMPOON. "Indeed, yes, I see it quite often, The pictures are @3simply@1 inane; The verses and jokes -- they would soften An average Vassar girl's brain. Of course they are killingly comic; I laugh, but I feel like a @3loon!@1" And thus, with a fierceness atomic, She censures the HARVARD LAMPOON. "But then they are @3bright@1, I don't doubt them, And @3very@1 artistic, @3of course!@1 Outsiders don't know all about them, You have to explain the -- the -- '@3horse@1.' Do send me that sweet book of 'pickings,' I hear you will publish in June." And thus she gives over her flickings, And praises the HARVARD LAMPOON. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXAMPLE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES LAMENT FOR THE MAKARIS [WHEN HE WAS SEIK] by WILLIAM DUNBAR THE ANGELUS; HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1868 by FRANCIS BRET HARTE LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE by EDWIN MARKHAM THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 2. PRELUDE: LOVE AT LARGE by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE AMORETTI: 70 by EDMUND SPENSER ON FILE by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS |