The Beautiful Lady Wihtout MercybillycityOctober 13 2007, 17:58:32 UTC
This is one of my favorite pomes and "She took me to her elfin grot" is the line I like best. It doesn't get any better than that. Exactly what is an "elfin grot"? What would it look like? A fairy grotto. A fairy cave. But elfin grot sounds much more interesting. I think it would be small and covered in green moss. Now here is rare Ben Johnson and his pome HER TRIUMPH. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/charis4.htm When I was a senior in college I wrote a parody of that pome making it about a car instead of(or as well as) a woman. "Mark well her headlights finer than any copywriter's liner". And something about those that "dream on bus stop benches of tires and tools and jacks and wrenches". That is about all of it I can remember now. Here is a fine website for 17th Century Englilsh Poetry. All the fine Cavalier poets and others are here. http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/
Now here is rare Ben Johnson and his pome HER TRIUMPH.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/charis4.htm
When I was a senior in college I wrote a parody of that pome making it about a car instead of(or as well as) a woman. "Mark well her headlights finer than any copywriter's liner". And something about those that "dream on bus stop benches of tires and tools and jacks and wrenches". That is about all of it I can remember now.
Here is a fine website for 17th Century Englilsh Poetry. All the fine Cavalier poets and others are here.
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/
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