I'D like to have you meet my wife! I simply cannot keep from hinting I've never seen, in all my life, So fine a specimen of printing. Her type is not some bold-face font, Set solid. Nay! And I will say out That no typographer could want To see a better balanced layout. A nice proportion of white space There is for brown eyes to look large in, And not a feature in her face Comes anywhere too near the margin. Locked up with all her sweet display Her form will never pi. She's like a Corrected proof marked @3stet, O. K.@1 -- And yet she loves me, fatface Pica! She has a fine one-column head, And like a comma curves each eyebrow -- Her forehead has an extra lead Which makes her seem a trifle highbrow. Her nose, @3italicized brevier,@1 Too lovely to describe by penpoint; Her mouth is set in pearl: her ear And chin are comely Caslon ten-point. Her cheeks (a pink parenthesis) Make my pulse beat 14-em measure, And such typography as this Would make De Vinne scream with pleasure. And so, of all typefounder chaps Her father's best, in my opinion; She is my NONPAREIL (IN CAPS) And I (in lower case) her minion. I hope you will not stand aloof Because my metaphors are shoppy; Of her devotion I've a proof -- I tell the urchin, @3Follow Copy!@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO RIVERS by RALPH WALDO EMERSON MOONRISE IN THE ROCKIES by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON FALLING ASLEEP by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THE LONG AGO by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE MARRIAGE OF GERAINT by ALFRED TENNYSON THE OLD LOBSTERMAN by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE TENNYSON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |