With jeweled tusks and damask housings August the elephants appear: Grandees, trumpets, banners, soldiers -- One flame from van to rear! Bid by India's King they travel In solemn embassage to-day, To meet the Diamond from Golconda, The Great Find of Cathay. O the honor, O the homage! But, methinks, 'twere nice, Would they say but How-de-do? To the Little Pearl of Price. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAPUT MORTUUM by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON WHITE AN' BLUE by WILLIAM BARNES THE DONKEY by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON THE BLACK RIDERS: 1 by STEPHEN CRANE THE SENSITIVE PLANT by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE HUSKERS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |