GENIUS named them, as I live! What but genius could compress In a title what man's humour said to man's supreme distress? @3Jacob's Ladder@1 ran reversed, from earth to a fiery pit extending, With not angels but poor Angles, those for the most part descending. Thence @3Brock's Benefit@1 commanded endless fireworks by two nations, Yet some voices there were raised against the rival coruscations. @3Picturedome@1 peeped out upon a dream, not Turner could surpass, And presently the picture moved, and greyed with corpses and morass. So down south; and if remembrance travel north, she marvels yet At the sharp Shakespearean names, and with sad mirth her eyes are wet. @3The Great Wall of China@1 rose, a four-foot breastwork, fronting guns That, when the word dropped, beat at once its silly ounces with brute tons; Odd @3Krab Krawl@1 on paper looks, and odd the foul-breathed alley twisted, As one feared to twist there too, if @3Minnie,@1 forward quean, insisted. Where the Yser at @3Dead End@1 floated on its bloody waters Dead and rotten monstrous fish, note (east) @3The Pike and Eel@1 headquarters. Ah, such names and apparitions! name on name! what's in a name? From the fabled vase the genie in his shattering horror came. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MADAGASCAR: AUBADE by WILLIAM DAVENANT ASKING FOR ROSES by ROBERT FROST ON THE LIFE OF MAN by WALTER RALEIGH FAREWELL TO THE FARM by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ON CYNTHIA, SINGING A RECITATIVE PIECE OF MUSIC by PHILIP AYRES THE PHILOSOPHER AND HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES A WASTED MORNING by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: GERARD DE LAIRESSE by ROBERT BROWNING |