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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAMILY: 5, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The adorner of the uncomely - those
Last Line: Raise my dictating voice on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
First Line: The adorner of the uncomely - those
Last Line: Raise my dictating voice on high.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
5
The Adorner of the uncomely - Those
Amidst whose tall battalions goes
Her pretty person out and in
All day with an endearing din,
Of censure and encouragement;
And when all else is tried in vain
See her sit down and weep again.
She weeps to conquer;
She varies on her grenadiers
From satire up to girlish tears!
Or rather to behold her when
She plies for me the unresting pen,
And when the loud assault of squalls
Resounds upon the roof and walls,
And the low thunder growls and I
Raise my dictating voice on high.
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