EXQUISITE wines and comestibles, From Slater, and Fortnum and Mason; Billiard, ecarte, and chess tables; Water in vast marble basin; Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous; One friend, who is fond of a distich, And doesn't get too syllogistic; A valet, who knows the complete art Of service -- a maiden, his sweetheart: Give me these, in some rural pavilion, And I'll envy no Rothschild his million. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BELLS OF YOUTH by WILLIAM SHARP THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO JOSIAH ROYCE by BRENT DOW ALLINSON LILIA'S TRESS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET AN ELEGY UPON THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY by JOHN CLEVELAND |