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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 3D SERIES: PRELUDE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: First comes tom baynes among these sorted quills Last Line: And all my dreams of manxland fade away. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Baynes, Tom | |||
FIRST comes Tom Baynes among these sorted quills, In asynartete octosyllables. Methinks you see the "fo'c's'le" squat, the squirt Nicotian, various interval of shirt, Enlarged, contract -- keen swordsman, cut-and-thrust: Old salt, old rip, old friend, Tom Baynes comes fust. Succeeds our Curate, innocent and good, The growth of Oxford in her sanest mood; Dame Nature's child, though bred among the Stoics, And, if he gush, he gushes in heroics. Forgive the youth if sometimes he relax In extra gush of pseudo-dochmiacs. Last hear our Pazon, reverend and meek; In unadorned verse I make him speak, As is most fit. To him Tom Baynes' rude style Were "simply barbarous" -- I see him smile His smile -- "Poor Tom has thoughts beyond his station, But language! sir -- unfit for publication." The Curate's rhymes he haply thinks audacious, Emphatic, overwrought. "But 'twere ungracious Of me to criticise a gentleman That is so kind and clever." There again You have our Pazon. So he says his say, And all my dreams of Manxland fade away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY GARDEN by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HOM-VEG AND BALLURE'S RIVER by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A FABLE, FOR HENRICUS D., ESQ., JR by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A FRAGMENT by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A MORNING WALK by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ABER STATIONS: STATIO PRIMA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUARTA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUINTA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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