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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TITTLE-TATTLE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: Tittle-tattle! Scandal and japes Last Line: To the tune of tittle-tattle! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John | |||
TITTLE-TATTLE! Scandal and japes, Gibe, and gossip, and folly's rattle! Ringed to fashion, caught like apes In your cage of tittle-tattle! Mean your skies, And mean the ways you tread; The meanness of your eyes Is never fully fed. You that have birth In gold and grovellings! You superfluity Of miserable earth, You trousered things And women without souls -- Out of the sunlight To your holes! Tittle-tattle! Whisper and pry! Sneers and snigger, and empty prattle! Truth and Charity into a lie To the tune of tittle-tattle! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ACCEPTATION by JOHN GALSWORTHY AMBERELY WILDBROOKS by JOHN GALSWORTHY AT VALDEMOSA: MALLORCA by JOHN GALSWORTHY AUTUMN BY THE SEA by JOHN GALSWORTHY AVOWAL, FR. THE ROOF by JOHN GALSWORTHY |
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