Aha! A guest! Within my master's house, a guest -- To eat With his meat No salt? Say you so! His vest -- his vest -- What glitters through his merchant's vest? Fast and fleet! Tabor, beat! Round again we go! Scarves about my head -- so! Silver girdle, flash -- ho! Round again -- again we go. Round again -- again we go. Chalk upon the panel there; Oil upon the pave -- beware! A guest, ho! A guest, ho! A sweet guest, ho! Laden mules, laden mules Came within our court there. Who boil In their oil? The thieves? Say you so! Fair fools -- fair fools! The moon saw the sport there! Spin, spin! Tabor, din! Round again we go! Thieves' beards be red -- so! Poniard, forth and flash -- ho! Round again -- again we go. Round again -- again we go. Master Ali, drunk with wine. Houssain, only I divine! A guest, ho! A guest, ho! A sly guest, ho! For treasure, for pleasure Stabbed and plotted many men. The fox Picked the locks. The springe Seized him -- so! Full measure -- full measure! Purses for my dancing, then? Purple are the shadows; The lamps red and low. Poniard at my breast -- so! Poniard at thy breast -- ho! Round again -- again we go. Round again -- again we go. Here's a dagger's smart should be Salt for such villainy! A guest, ho! A guest, ho! A dead guest, ho! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEATH (1) by MAXWELL BODENHEIM A BANJO SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES. THE COURTIN' by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE WAITER AND THE ALLIGATOR by G. W. A. OCTOBER XXIX, 1795 (KEATS' BIRTHDAY) by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE LAURA'S SONG by OLIVER MADOX BROWN A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN by JOHN BYROM |