Invitation To Dinner. Addressed To Lord Lansdowne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDEFFGGHHIAIA JJKJLJMMNNOOPP| September | A |
| - | |
| - | |
| Some think we bards have nothing real | B |
| That poets live among the stars so | C |
| Their very dinners are ideal | B |
| And heaven knows too oft they are so | C |
| For instance that we have instead | D |
| Of vulgar chops and stews and hashes | E |
| First course a Phoenix at the head | D |
| Done in its own celestial ashes | E |
| At foot a cygnet which kept singing | F |
| All the time its neck was wringing | F |
| Side dishes thus Minerva's owl | G |
| Or any such like learned fowl | G |
| Doves such as heaven's poulterer gets | H |
| When Cupid shoots his mother's pets | H |
| Larks stewed in Morning's roseate breath | I |
| Or roasted by a sunbeam's splendor | A |
| And nightingales berhymed to death | I |
| Like young pigs whipt to make them tender | A |
| - | |
| Such fare may suit those bards who are able | J |
| To banquet at Duke Humphrey's table | J |
| But as for me who've long been taught | K |
| To eat and drink like other people | J |
| And can put up with mutton bought | L |
| Where Bromham rears its ancient steeple | J |
| If Lansdowne will consent to share | M |
| My humble feast tho' rude the fare | M |
| Yet seasoned by that salt he brings | N |
| From Attica's salinest springs | N |
| 'Twill turn to dainties while the cup | O |
| Beneath his influence brightening up | O |
| Like that of Baucis touched by Jove | P |
| Will sparkle fit for gods above | P |
Thomas Moore
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Invitation To Dinner. Addressed To Lord Lansdowne poem by Thomas Moore
Best Poems of Thomas Moore