I HE leaped. With none to hinder, Of Aetna's fiery scoriae In the next vomit-shower, made he A more peculiar cinder. And this great Doctor, can it be, He left no saner recipe For men at issue with despair? Admiring, even his poet owns, While noting his fine lyric tones, The last of him was heels in air! II Comes Reverence, her features Amazed to see high Wisdom hear, With glimmer of a faunish leer, One mock her pride of creatures. Shall such sad incident degrade A stature casting sunniest shade? O Reverence! let Reason swim; Each life its critic deed reveals; And him reads Reason at his heels, If heels in air the last of him! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEXTER GORDON: COPENHAGEN/AVERY FISHER HALL by KAREN SWENSON A DOUBLE STANDARD by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER THE CHURCH-PORCH by GEORGE HERBERT HYMN TO THE NIGHT by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE WAITER AND THE ALLIGATOR by G. W. A. DRINKING SONG (4) by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE |