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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPITAPH AFTER READING RONSARD'S LINES FROM RABELAIS, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poet's Biography First Line: If fruits are fed on any beast Last Line: Damned his soul to water springs. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops | |||
If fruits are fed on any beast Let vine-roots suck this parish priest, For while he lived, no summer sun Went up but he'd a bottle done, And in the starlight beer and stout Kept his waistcoat bulging out. Then Death that changes happy things Damned his soul to water springs. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF THE DEMENTED PRIEST by JOHN BERRYMAN HORATIO ALGER (1834-1899) by MADELINE DEFREES ELEGIES FOR THE OCHER DEER ON THE WALLS AT LASCAUX by NORMAN DUBIE IN THE TIME OF FALSE MESSIAHS; CIRCA 1648 by NORMAN DUBIE THE GUARDIAN OF THE RED DISK (SPOKEN BY A CITIZEN OF MALTA - 1300) by EMMA LAZARUS DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THIS SIDE OF CALVIN by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY WHAT WAS LEFT OVER; FOR SUJATA BHATT by ELEANOR WILNER A QUESTION by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE |
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