NOVUS, whose silly claim to "high position" Is genuine, if wealth can make it true; A youth whose stock -- petrolean, not patrician -- Shines none the less for being fresh and new, -- Standing before a flaming placard sees, Announcing thus the lecture of the night, By Everett, -- "The Age of Pericles!" Novus, half doubting if he reads aright, Repeats the words (soliloquizing loud) "The Age of Pericles! -- I wonder now Why such a theme should gather all this crowd That throngs the door with such a mighty row; There is n't one among'em, I'll engage, Who cares a fig about the fellow's age!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9 by THOMAS CAMPION A SONG TO CELIA by CHARLES SEDLEY THE BURIED LIFE by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE MEADOW STREAM by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE: OR, THE DEATH OF SYR CHARLES BAWDIN by THOMAS CHATTERTON THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE PARDONER'S INTRODUCTION AND PROLOGUE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |