poetry 2024-07-15 20:48:47 [reply]
Coffee ! oh, Coffee ! Faith, it is surprising,
’Mid all the poets, good and bad and worse,
Who've scribbled (Hock and Chian eulogising)
Post and papyrus with ‘ immortal verse,’
Melodiously similitudinising
In Sapphics languid, or Alcaics terse,
No one, my little brown Arabian berry,
Hath sung thy praises, —’tis surprising, very