Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker, To find a likeness for friend V -- ker, I've made thro' Earth, and Air, and Sea, A Voyage of Discovery! And let me add (to ward off strife) For V -- ker and for V -- ker's Wife -- SHE large and round beyond belief, A superfluity of Beef! Her mind and body of a piece, And both composed of kitchen-grease. In short, Dame Truth might safely dub her Vulgarity enshrin'd in blubber! He, meagre Bit of Littleness, All snuff, and musk, and politesse; So thin, that strip him of his clothing, He'd totter on the edge of NOTHING! In case of foe, he well might hide Snug in the collops of her side. Ah then, what simile will suit? Spindle-leg in great jack-boot? Pismire crawling in a rut? Or a spigot in a butt? Thus I humm'd and ha'd awhile, When Madam Memory with a smile Thus twitch'd my ear -- 'Why sure, I ween, In London streets thou oft hast seen The very image of this Pair: A little Ape with huge She-Bear Link'd by hapless chain together: An unlick'd mass the one -- the other An antic small with nimble crupper --' But stop, my Muse! for here comes Supper. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE NIGHTINGALE by ANNE FINCH THE DARK MAN by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 22 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) IF I AM SITTING CLOSE TO YOU by JESSIE DOWNS BELKNAP WATER SPORT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |