Austin Dobson

Poems (6)

• A Fancy from Fontenelle

  “De mémoires de Roses on n’a point vu mourir le Jardinier.” / THE ROSE in the garden slipped her bud, …

• A Gage D’Amour

  “Martiis cælebs quid agam Kalendis, / ——— miraris?” …

• Growing Gray

  “On a l’âge de son cœur.” / —A. d’HOUDETOT. …

• On a Fan

  That Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour / (Ballade) …

• The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme

  When the ways are heavy with mire and rut, / In November fogs, in December snows, …

• The Sun-Dial

  ’t Is an old dial, dark with many a stain; / In summer crowned with drifting orchard bloom, …