Post by PennyalineTo the best of recollection, it goes some'at
Here through the seagreen twilight
Slinks the tiger with his jewelled eye
And slick and slim the crafty lynx
Prick eared like satan lurches by
Maybe I need some cake, too.
Worth about $20 of cake, apparently:
Interestingly, all I'm getting from searching one of the lines here,
"And slick and slim the crafty lynx..." is this:
http://www.justanswer.com/general/67bst-trying-years-trace-metaphysical-poem.html
I have been trying for some years to trace a metaphysical poem
Customer Question
I have been trying for some years to trace a metaphysical poem
starting
"Here through the seagreen twilight
Slinks the tiger with his jewelled eye
And slick and slim the crafty lynx
Prick eared like satan lurches by"
Can you help me? I do not know the poet
Already Tried:
Google Poetry first line services Ask Jeeves etc
Submitted: 10 days and 14 hours ago.
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Customer replied 5 days and 15 hours ago.
Carry on searching
Best wishes
Ros White
Expert: Pennyaline replied 3 days and 12 hours ago.
Was it a standard form poem, or an epic like "The Knight in the
Tiger's Skin"? It wasn't Blake's "The Tiger," was it?
Customer replied 3 days and 9 hours ago.
It was a standard form poem. Blake's poem starts "Tyger Tygre burning
bright, in the forests of the night".
The poem I'm looking for is about the fall of man from the garden of
Eden, which is depicted as a jungle
Expert: Pennyaline replied 3 days and 9 hours ago.
I know "The Tiger" and I'm asking because lots of people misremember
it as something it isn't. That's what I wanted to establish. But
you've given me more to work with. We're from the same era, but I
don't remember ever reading a poem like the one you're looking for at
all...doesn't mean I won't keep looking though!
Expert: Pennyaline replied 1 days and 22 hours ago.
You know, I actually might be onto your poem!
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