In a frosty sunset So fiery red with cold The footballers' onset Rings out glad and bold; Then boys from daily tether With famous dogs at heel In starlight meet together And to farther hedges steal; Where the rats are pattering In and out the stacks, Owls with hatred chattering Swoop at the terriers' backs. And, frost forgot, the chase grows hot Till a rat's a foolish prize, But the cornered weasel stands his ground, Shrieks at the dogs and boys set round, Shrieks as he knows they stand all round, And hard as winter dies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DIRTY OLD MAN by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1718 by JONATHAN SWIFT LOOKING FORWARD by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONAUTICA): THE SAILING OF THE ARGO by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS THE INVITATION by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE LAST RACE by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES |