Sole scholar of your college I appear. Plenipotential for the party here Assembled, elegantly to present Their salutations and my compliment. Awhile ago, when I came to your hands I came I tripped on commas, stumbled at a name. Browsed like the sheep of some ungenerous breeder On that lean pasture-land, a First Reader. Since when, by you presented, early and late, I sit and feast with all the good andx great. And pass the flagon round, and praise my lot, With Burns and Byron, Addison and Scott. Since when, a practiced knight, fear laid aside, Through verbal Alps, unfaltering I ride. With polysyllables prove a past practioner, And need not blush before a Land Commissioner. For which good gifts, they chose me (choosing right), To grace with speech the ritual of the night; Deliver his rough verse wsith easy mien And make my bow before our Lady Dean. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POLYHYMNIA: SONNET TO LADY FALKLAND UPON HER GOING TO INTO IRELAND by WILLIAM BASSE THE YOUNG FOWLER THAT MISTOOK HIS GAME; AN IDYLLIUM by BION TO THE RIVER CHERWELL by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: MORNING AND MEETING by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON ANNA, THY CHARMS by ROBERT BURNS THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL; AN ALLEGORY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |