A few days ago I buried one of our beloved cats. He’d been with us a good decade or so, and I’ve shed my share of tears.
I was on the hunt for a good cat poem this week and stumbled upon this humorous, poetic, pseudo-cautionary tale written by Englishman Thomas Gray (1716--1771):
“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”
I mean, who can resist a title like that?
Silver would forgive my light touch after a heavy heart. He was much too grounded and savvy to have ever gotten himself in the following situation:
...
Still had she gazed; but 'midst the tide
Two angel forms were seen to glide,
The genii of the stream;
Their scaly armour’s Tyrian hue
Through richest purple to the view
Betrayed a golden gleam.
The hapless nymph with wonder saw;
A whisker first and then a claw,
With many an ardent wish,
She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
...
For what comes before and after, read the whole poem
here.
And for the rest of the Poetry Friday Roundup, please visit Elaine at
Wild Rose Reader.
I was on the hunt for a good cat poem this week and stumbled upon this humorous, poetic, pseudo-cautionary tale written by Englishman Thomas Gray (1716--1771):
“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”
I mean, who can resist a title like that?
Silver would forgive my light touch after a heavy heart. He was much too grounded and savvy to have ever gotten himself in the following situation:
...
Still had she gazed; but 'midst the tide
Two angel forms were seen to glide,
The genii of the stream;
Their scaly armour’s Tyrian hue
Through richest purple to the view
Betrayed a golden gleam.
The hapless nymph with wonder saw;
A whisker first and then a claw,
With many an ardent wish,
She stretched in vain to reach the prize.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
...
For what comes before and after, read the whole poem
here.
And for the rest of the Poetry Friday Roundup, please visit Elaine at
Wild Rose Reader.