Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPENSERIAN STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN, by JOHN KEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is to weet a melancholy carle Last Line: Who as they walk abroad make tinkling with their feet. Variant Title(s): A Portrait;stanzas On Charles Armitage Brown;character Of Charles Brown Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) | ||||||||
I. HE is to weet a melancholy carle: Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair, As hath the seeded thistle when in parle It holds the Zephyr, ere it sendeth fair Its light balloons into the summer air; Therto his beard had not begun to bloom, No brush had touch'd his chin or razor sheer; No care had touch'd his cheek with mortal doom, But new he was and bright as scarf from Persian loom. II. Ne cared he for wine, or half-and-half Ne cared he for fish or flesh or fowl, And sauces held he worthless as the chaff; He 'sdeigned the swine-head at the wassail-bowl; Ne with lewd ribbalds sat he cheek by jowl; Ne with sly Lemans in the scorner's chair; But after water-brooks this Pilgrim's soul Panted, and all his food was woodland air Though he would oft-times feast on gilliflowers rare. III. The slang of cities in no wise he knew, Tipping the wink to him was heathen Greek; He sipp'd no olden Tom or ruin blue, Or nantz or cherry-brandy drank full meek By many a damsel hoarse and rouge of cheek; Nor did he know each aged watchman's beat, Nor in obscured purlieus would he seek For curled Jewesses, with ankles neat, Who as they walk abroad make tinkling with their feet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GARDEN OF ADONIS by EMMA LAZARUS THE VIRTUOSO; IN IMITATION OF SPENCER'S STYLE AND STANZA by MARK AKENSIDE SPECIMEN OF AN INDUCTION TO A POEM by JOHN KEATS SPENSER'S IRELAND by MARIANNE MOORE THE ALLEY. AN IMITATION OF SPENSER by ALEXANDER POPE A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (1) by WALTER RALEIGH A VISION UPON [THIS CONCEIT] OF THE FAERIE QUEENE (2) by WALTER RALEIGH AMORETTI: DEDICATION. G.W. SENIOR, TO THE AUTHOR by GEOFFREY WHITNEY SR. COMMENDATORY VERSE FOR THE FAERIE QUEENE by H. B. A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA by JOHN KEATS |
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