AGASCON one day when a Cardinal's guest, Great boast of his river the Garonne exprest; So deep, so expansive, so rapid in flow, The world to that river no rival could show. Said his host, "Then, compared to that wonderful stream, You the Tiber at Rome but a rivulet deem?" "The Tiber forsooth!" he indignantly said; "Let it hide underground its diminutive head; Should it dare, Sir, to flow by my old castle wall, In the course of one hour I would bottle it all." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY THE HEATHEN PASS-EE by ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON A PETITION TO TIME by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 39 by PHILIP SIDNEY NOCTURNE by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER |