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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROLOGUE TO 'DE LIBRIS', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lector benevole! - for so Last Line: Then, lector, be benevolus! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin | |||
LECTOR Benevole! -- for so They used to call you, years ago, -- I can't pretend to make you read The pages that to this succeed; Nor would I, if I could, excuse The wayward promptings of the Muse, At whose command I wrote them down. I have no hope to 'please the town.' I did but think some friendly soul (Not ill-advised, upon the whole!) Might like them; and -- 'to interpose A little ease,' -- between the prose, Slipped in the scraps of verse, that thus Things might be less monotonous. Then, Lector, be Benevolus! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A GARDEN SONG by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON BEFORE SEDAN by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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