I intended an Ode,
And it turn'd to a Sonnet
It began à la mode,
I intended an Ode;
But Rose cross'd the road
In her latest new bonnet;
I intended an Ode;
And it turn'd to a Sonnet.

(C) Henry Austin Dobson
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Henry Austin Dobson

• At The Convent Gate.
• Premiers Amours.
• To His Book.
• A Broken Sword.
• In Town.
• To A Child.
• Charles George Gordon.
• My Books.
• Of His Mistress.
• Growing Gray.
• An Epistle To An Editor
• A Love-song.
• Horatian Ode On The Tercentenary Of "don Quixote"
• The Poet And The Critics.
• Lines To A Stupid Picture.
• The Virgin With The Bells.
• The Two Painters.
• To A Pastoral Poet.
• Urceus Exit