@3MY title has a foreign look; The sort of Latin label One might expect upon a book Devoted to the table. Yet "Macaroni" 's come to be A word of many meanings, (One Noah Webster, LL.D., Explains its Yankee leanings) And some of these, I think, will fit The facts and personages My puny pipings cause to flit Among these printed pages. If, still, you deem my plain intent Too delicately subtle, I've yet another argument To offer in rebuttal: Since these my verses scarce may claim Much share of fame or boodle, But merely aim to laud the name Of Mr. Yankee Doodle, May I -- whose Pegasus, mayhap, Like his, is but a pony -- Not stick a feather in my cap And call it@1 MCARONI? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUCOLIC COMEDY: EARLY SPRING by EDITH SITWELL A LITTLE CHILD'S HYMN; FOR NIGHT AND MORNING by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 50. WILLOWWOOD (2) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE BOOK OF THE LETTER, SELECTION by ABRAHAM ABULAFIA CAPITAL SQUARE by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON |