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