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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR AN APPENDIX TO THE ROWFANT LIBRARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His books.' oh yes, his books I know Last Line: Produce no frederick locker. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Locker-lampson, Frederick (1821-1895); Poetry & Poets | |||
(F. L. L.: IN MEMORIAM) 'HIS Books.' Oh yes, his Books I know, -- Each worth a monarch's ransom; But now, beside their row on row, I see, erect and handsome, The courtly Owner, glass in eye, With half-sad smile, forerunning Some triumph of an apt reply, -- Some master-stroke of punning. Where shall we meet his like again? Where hear, in such perfection, Such genial talk of gods and men, -- Such store of recollection; Or where discern a verse so neat, So well-bred and so witty, -- So finished in its least conceit, So mixed of mirth and pity? POPE taught him rhythm, PRIOR ease, PRAED buoyancy and banter; What modern bard would learn from these? Ah, tempora mutantur! The old regime departs, -- departs; Our days of mime and mocker, For all their imitative arts, Produce no FREDERICK LOCKER. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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