LET others praise analysis And revel in a "cultured" style, And follow the subjective Miss From Boston to the banks of Nile, Rejoice in anti-British bile, And weep for fickle hero's woe, These twain have shortened many a mile, Miss Braddon and Gaboriau. These damsels of "Democracy's," How long they stop at every stile! They smile, and we are told, I wis, Ten subtle reasons @3why@1 they smile. Give @3me@1 your villains deeply vile, Give me Lecoq, Jottrat, and Co., Great artists of the ruse and wile, Miss Braddon and Gaboriau! Oh, novel readers, tell me this, Can prose that's polished by the file, Like great Boisgobey's mysteries, Wet days and weary ways beguile, And man to living reconcile, Like these whose every trick we know? The agony how high they pile, Miss Braddon and Gaboriau! ENVOY. Ah, friend, how many and many a while They've made the slow time fleetly flow, And solaced pain and charmed exile, Miss Braddon and Gaboriau. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOW TIDE ON GRAND-PRE by BLISS CARMAN THE ZONE OF VENUS by ANTIPHANES IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: HOW SHALL I BUILD by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 30 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH DRINKING SONG OF MUNICH by THOMAS CAMPBELL MY DREAM OF DREAMS by ALICE CARY |