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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WRITTEN AFTER A WALK BEFORE SUPPER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' much averse, dear jack, to flicker Last Line: But stop, my muse! For here comes supper. | |||
Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker, To find a likeness for friend V -- ker, I've made thro' Earth, and Air, and Sea, A Voyage of Discovery! And let me add (to ward off strife) For V -- ker and for V -- ker's Wife -- SHE large and round beyond belief, A superfluity of Beef! Her mind and body of a piece, And both composed of kitchen-grease. In short, Dame Truth might safely dub her Vulgarity enshrin'd in blubber! He, meagre Bit of Littleness, All snuff, and musk, and politesse; So thin, that strip him of his clothing, He'd totter on the edge of NOTHING! In case of foe, he well might hide Snug in the collops of her side. Ah then, what simile will suit? Spindle-leg in great jack-boot? Pismire crawling in a rut? Or a spigot in a butt? Thus I humm'd and ha'd awhile, When Madam Memory with a smile Thus twitch'd my ear -- 'Why sure, I ween, In London streets thou oft hast seen The very image of this Pair: A little Ape with huge She-Bear Link'd by hapless chain together: An unlick'd mass the one -- the other An antic small with nimble crupper --' But stop, my Muse! for here comes Supper. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN INVOCATION; SONG, FR. REMORSE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AN ODE TO THE RAIN by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE COLOGNE; EPIGRAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DEJECTION: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE; THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE EPITAPH ON HIMSELF by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE FANCY IN NUBIBUS; OR, THE POET IN THE CLOUDS by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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