Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR THE AVERY 'KNICKERBOCKER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of herrick, muse of locker Last Line: This the muse can never do! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); New York City - Dutch Period; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; United States - Dutch Settlements; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes | ||||||||
(WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY G. H. BOUGHTON) SHADE of Herrick, Muse of Locker, Help me sing of Knickerbocker! BOUGHTON, had you bid me chant Hymns to Peter Stuyvesant! Had you bid me sing of Wouter, (He! the Onion-head! the Doubter!) But to rhyme of this one, -- Mocker! Who shall rhyme to Knickerbocker? Nay, but where my hand must fail There the more shall yours avail; You shall take your brush and paint All that ring of figures quaint, -- All those Rip-van-Winkle jokers, -- All those solid-looking smokers, Pulling at their pipes of amber In the dark-beamed Council-Chamber. Only art like yours can touch Shapes so dignified ... and Dutch; Only art like yours can show How the pine-logs gleam and glow, Till the fire-light laughs and passes 'Twixt the tankards and the glasses, Touching with responsive graces All those grave Batavian faces, -- Making bland and beatific All that session soporific. Then I come and write beneath, BOUGHTON, he deserves the wreath; He can give us form and hue -- This the Muse can never do! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON CHANEL NO. 5 by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY by JAMES GALVIN DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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