YES, I admit I've made a book, A book of many humorous lays; I put in stuff by Hood and Hook, I put in bits of Knight's and Day's. And gems of Guiterman's and Gay's; And lines by Cary, Carryl, Cayley; Yet critics all this question raise, Why did I leave out T. A. Daly? Over my Indices I look (They are enough my brain to faze), When critics' heads at me are shook, I feel that I must mend my ways. This Parthian shaft of F. P. A.'s I read -- no longer laughing gayly -- For, though he favors, he inveighs -- @3Why@1 did I leave out T. A. Daly? Christopher Morley then partook In the discriminating praise; He said, omit Eliza Cook, Or leave out Rabelais or Blaize; Cut out that elegy of Gray's Or evidences of old Paley; But -- he inquired -- in caustic phrase, @3Why@1 did I leave out T. A. Daly? L'ENVOI: Colyumists, thanks for your bouquets; And yet I'm sad. Oh, willow waly, When I crowned many bards with bays, Why @3did@1 I leave out T. A. Daly? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2 by THOMAS CAMPION THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915] by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862] by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE POET AND HIS BOOK by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION by WALT WHITMAN EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 44. TEARS THE SYMPTOM LOVE by PHILIP AYRES |