To Theodore De Banville, 1842 - (Twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire)

    So proud your port, your arm so powerful,
        With such a grip you grip the goddess' hair,
        That one might take you, from your casual air,
    For a young ruffian flinging down his trull.

    Your clear eye flashing with precocity,
        You have displayed yourself proud architect
        Of fabrics so audaciously correct
    That we may guess what your ripe prime will be.

    Poet, our blood ebbs out through every pore;
    Is it, perchance, the robe the Centaur bore,
        Which made a sullen streamlet of each vein,

    Was three times dipped within the venom fell
    Of those old reptiles fierce and terrible
        Whom, in his cradle, Hercules had slain?

John Collings Squire, Sir

John Collings Squire, Sir

John Collings Squire, also known as Sir John Squire, was an influential British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the early 20th century. He is best known for his role as editor of the London Mercury, a powerful literary journal of the time. Squire was a leading figure in the Georgian poetry movement, which sought to return English poetry to its traditional form and diction.

John Collings Squire, Sir

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