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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMBROSIA, by BURGES JOHNSON Poet's Biography
First Line: I have sipped and supped and tasted
Last Line: Boyhood's bowl of bread-and-milk!
Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Childhood
First Line: I have sipped and supped and tasted
Last Line: Boyhood's bowl of bread-and-milk!
Subject(s): Children; Food & Eating; Childhood
I have sipped and supped and tasted
Of the food a poet sings;
Rare exotic fauna, basted
By some chef, the peer of kings.
Cloyed, I've thrown aside or wasted
Nectar and ambrosial things.
Though I sit amid the gleam of
Damask, broadcloth, shimmering silk,—
Crystal bowls that hold the cream of
Nature's stores of every ilk;
Oft in yearning mood I dream of
Boyhood's bowl of bread-and-milk!
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