The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q"

The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q"

TO MAURICE HEWLETT HEWLETT! as ship to ship Let us the ensign dip. There may be who despise For dross our merchandise, Our balladries, our bales Of woven tales; Yet, Hewlett, the glad gales Favonian! And what spray Our dolphins toss'd in play, Full in old Triton's beard, on Iris' shimmering veils! Scant tho' the freight of gold Commercial in our hold, Pstum, Eridanus Perchance have barter'd us 'Bove chrematistic care THE VIGIL OF VENUS PERVIGILIUM VENERIS THE REGENTA DRAMA IN ONE ACT POEMS EXMOOR VERSES VASHTI'S SONG SATURN DERELICTION TWO FOLK SONGS THE SOLDIER THE MARINE MARY LESLIE JENIFER'S LOVE TWO DUETS THE STATUES AND THE TEAR NUPTIAL NIGHT HESPERUS CHANT ROYAL OF HIGH VIRTUE CORONATION HYMN THREE MEN OF TRURO ALMA MATER CHRISTMAS EVE THE ROOT TO A FRIEND WHO SENT ME A BOX OF VIOLETS OF THREE CHILDREN CHOOSING A CHAPLET OF VERSE EPILOGUE: TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES Of these two MSS. the better written may be assigned (at earliest) to the close of the seventh century; the other (again at earliest) to the close of the ninth. Both are corrupt; the work of two illiterate copyists whostrange to saywere both smatterers enough to betray their little knowledge by converting Pervigilium into Per Virgilium (scilicet, "by Virgil"): thus helping us to follow the process of thought by which the Middle Ages turned Virgil into a wizard. Here and there the texts become quite silly, separately or in consent; and just where they agree in the most surprising wayi.e. in the arrangement of the linesthe conjectural emendator is invited to do his worst by a note at the head of the older Codex, "Sunt vero versus xxii""There are rightly twenty-two lines." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 10133
Author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
Release Date: Nov 1, 2003
Format: eBook
Language: English