ON MRS. NICELY, WRITTEN AFTER SEEING MRS. DAVENPORT IN HER CHARACTER AT COVENT GARDEN. SHE was a woman peerless in her station, With household virtues wedded to her name; Spotless in linen, grass-bleached in her fame, And pure and clear-starched in her reputation; Thence in my Castle of Imagination She dwells for evermore, the dainty dame, To keep all airy draperies from shame, And all dream-furniture in preservation; There walketh she with keys quite silver-bright, In perfect hose, and shoes of seemly black, Apron and stomacher of lily-white, And decent order follows in her track: The burnished plate grows lustrous in her sight, And polished floors and tables shine her back. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEAD MAN'S DUMP by ISAAC ROSENBERG SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL by EVA K. ANGLESBURG THE KNIGHTS: DEMOS AND HIS FLATTERER by ARISTOPHANES ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) THE LITTLE OLD WOMEN; TO VICTOR HUGO by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE BEHIND THE LINE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN MAN AND NATURE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |