A Miscellany on the Occasion on the 40th Podcast: http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to classic poetry. --------------------------------------------------- To A Fat Lady Seen From The Train By Frances Cornford O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breast of doves And shivering sweet to the touch? O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? A Portrait Painter By G.R. Hamilton Good Mr Fortune, A.R.A., Rejoiced in twenty sons, But even there he failed, they say, To get a likeness once. On the Distant Prospect of an Absconding Bookmaker By G.R. Hamilton Alas! What boots it that my noble steed, Chosen so carefully, the field outran? I did no reckon, bookie, on your speed: The proper study of mankind is man. Epigram By Alexander Pope You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please: there’s nobody at home. Epigram By Matthew Prior Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool: But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.