SIR HUDSON Lowe, Sir Hudson Low, By name, and ah! by nature so) As thou art fond of persecutions, Perhaps thou ' st read , or heard repeated, How Captain Gulliver was treated, When thrown among the Lilliputians. 'They tied him down - these little men did- And having valiantly ascended Upon the Mighty Man's protuberance, They did so strut! -- upon my soul, It must have been extremely droll To see their pigmy pride's exuberance! And how the doughty mannikins Amused themselves with sticking pins And needles in the great man's breeches: And how some very little things, That past for Lords, on scaffoldings Got up and worried him with speeches. Alas, alas! that it should happen To mighty men to be caught napping! Tho' different too these persecutions; For Gulliver, there, took the nap, While, here, the Nap, oh sad mishap, Is taken by the Lilliputians! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY DEWEY IN MANILA BAY [MAY 1, 1898] by RICHARD VORHEES RISLEY THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 78. BODY'S BEAUTY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI JAMESON'S RIDE by ALFRED AUSTIN THE DREADED TASK by MARGARET E. BRUNER TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO BECOME A CREATOR by EDWARD CARPENTER |