Classic Verse: King David to Coleridge
By Arnold Logan
Classic Verse: King David to ColeridgeApr 08, 2024
Coleridge said
This Poem by his friend, is the best in the language
across the channel
Contempary
thanksgivings in the new Julian year
Psalms
A nice compendium
With one unexpected at the end.
From Pomfret , Swift , Cowper and Blake
We find war and the future ,
On which we , like beasties, ruminate.
To Conclude Tourneur's poem
We hear the end
From Cyril , Cruel earth deformed
Is expounded upon with uncommon charm
On Prior's gift , all may advance
Here he extolls, Britain's Defeat of France
Poems of early Israel
Hebrew poetry translated in the 1930's
From one of Gay's plays and a plea by one anonomie
to compare two singers of words
Drede Is Skelton
As he Skewers the Court's minions.
THESE are 8 Psalms
COMPOSED by King David
Cider 2
BY a wise son,: John Philips
A rare concession to the world of dirt
John Philips praises wholesome earth
Of Despair and Libertie , with a touch of Psyche
Three verses on Fairies , the last emblematic , second nostalgic , and the first of deep moralitee
End and start of a century
Does Beauty bring you to your knees?
Sans errours extermis
Here is the Hymn to Venus
Congreve translates
And shapes words of gods in lyric fire
When Beggars wed kings , we know we see
How high humanity can aspire to be
of various hard verses
through sev'real centuries
I try to read
Gower Masqued
Rhymes, fates die as cast.
at 21 , Southey praises woman
from his volume of early verse ,
he tells of one Heaven guided nurse.
Three Worthies : formed by the 18th Century
Three men in a tub,
sing: rub-a dub, dub.
WIth Waller, and Johnson, and kind Will
May you find your odd twenty filled
The Master doth here present a debate
As to , who rules the world, in love not from hate.
From Rawlinson's manuscript
And from various women and men's voices
The crux of modernity
with erudition and imagination
Henry Moore perceives what Einstein proved
IN our Language , two most influential poets
One from Heaven, one from earth
Inspire mankind by sweet verse.
Patience
backwards
The two G's
From Earth's woes free
the Swift has returned
A Prince amongst the Learned
the best of the West
Ay, let none protest!
Crabbe's last tale
and an end note from Herbert
Hints from a transformed tree, tales of flower and birdie
and over a half of one Clifford's mythic story
from early to late
dominates
Closer
When ?
IN Dryden , a wide discussion reigns
We'll not know his like again
late in the 17th : two wits side by side
wrote verse that will survive
Prior to Gold , did Smith just have brass? Listen , decide, and I pray clap
end the 17th C and see the 18th cynical be
FROM A DIM PAST TO DREAMS HATCHED
They lie side by side /Dear Ovid and sweet Poe
whose music thrives/ who'd guess shook hands , Odso
honour the season with song and sonnet
16th to 19th C : a few tasty treats
Vibrations of Wordsworth
some of the rarer sort
the world created , translated :Not that one ; one pagan explication of the human sink
Hear this Roman host , from Ovid's best , through Dryden's ghost
The wit's playfellow
And Pope's fine friend , speaks here of those light years , and then of the end.
Many sweets
We visit , an original partly copied : and some loving practitioners of Poetry
from Marlowe's quill and Keat's lovin' skills
For Ovid and Endymion , we hear a new begin'on
17th and 19th C ,, see the abilities
Of Rochester and of Keats : some verse you may find neat , and of the first most indiscreet , but of the latter do ye know , he died from his kindness , by a cold blow
Ole Defoe , of England, great
does the hypocrite excoriate,
Did he write this from Newgate?
From David
Feelings strong ; also strange?
TO TEST Robert Browning's reason for why he published them
Let' us compare apples with oranges , ah hem