Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MONODY ON THE ASTOR HOUSE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament, o muse, and heave a suspiration Last Line: Shades of the woolworth tower!another year! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Lament; New York City - Buildings; Skyscrapers; Woolworth Building, New York | ||||||||
Lament, O Muse, and heave a suspiration, Make me an epicedium, a threne, An ode to fit my humid lachrimation, A dirge ultramarine! For heavy I, and supercharged with woe, On reading that the Astor House must go. Thou noble inn where oft I (Crys of "Louder") Repaired to find a frugal bit of lunch; Where grew the city's only perfect chowder And hot Jamaica punch So deep my woe that thou art to be razed I question it can fittingly be phrazed. Farewell, farewell! If Byron I may borrow I read of thee in many an Alger tome, Unthinking that, in age and bowed with sorrow, I'd spill to thee a pome; Unknowing that some day I should deplore The announcement that thou wert to be no more. Yet though my trend be super-sentimental, Thine end I truly do not mind a bit; My grief for that is wholly incidental, This is my woe, to wit: The riveting and blasting that I hear Shades of the Woolworth tower!another year! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN WOOLWORTH BUILDING by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS THE FLAT-HUNTER'S WAY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TO THE RETURNED GIRLS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TO A THESAURUS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A CONSISTENT GIRL by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A PENNY'S WORTH OF POESY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A RHYMED REVIEW; 'LAUGHING MUSE' (BY ARTHUR GUITERMAN) by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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