WESS he says, and sort o' grins, "Art and Poetry is twins! "Yit, if I'd my pick, I'd shake Poetry, and no mistake! "Pictures, allus 'peared to @3me,@1 Clean laid over Poetry! "Let me @3draw,@1 and then, i jings, I'll not keer a straw who sings. "'F I could draw as you have drew, Like to jes' swap pens with you! "Picture-drawin' 's my pet vision Of Life-work in Lands Elysian. "Pictures is first language we Find hacked out in History. "Most delight we ever took Was in our first Picture-book. "'Thout the funny picture-makers, They'd be lots more undertakers! "Still, as I say, Rhymes and Art 'Smighty hard to tell apart. "Songs and pictures go together Same as birds and summer weather." So Wess says, and sort o' grins, "Art and Poetry is twins." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEART'S FIRST WORD (2) by ISAAC ROSENBERG THE FAIRY CHILD by JOHN ANSTER BORDER BALLAD [OR MARCH, OR SONG], FR. THE MONASTERY by WALTER SCOTT I HEARD YOUR SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES by WALT WHITMAN THE SONG OF HER by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE SHOES THAT DANCED by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH |