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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO AN OLD MOUSER, by ROYALL TYLER Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of lubricious art! Of sanguine sport!
Last Line: To sport with sorrow first, and then destroy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Della Cruscanism (poetic Style)
First Line: Child of lubricious art! Of sanguine sport!
Last Line: To sport with sorrow first, and then destroy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Della Cruscanism (poetic Style)
CHILD of lubricious art! of sanguine sport!
Of pangful mirth! sweet ermin'd sprite!
Who lov'st, with silent, velvet step, to court
The bashful bosom of the night.
Whose elfin eyes can pierce night's sable gloom,
And witch her fairy prey with guile,
Who sports fell frolic o'er the grisly tomb,
And gracest death with dimpling smile!
Daughter of ireful mirth, sportive in rage,
Whose joy should shine in sculptur'd base relief,
Like Patience, in rapt Shakespeare's deathless page,
Smiling in marble at wan grief.
Oh, come and teach me all thy barb'rous joy,
To sport with sorrow first, and then destroy.
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