 | The select poems of Dr. Thomas Dunn English (exclusive of the "Battle lyrics") |  |
SASSIETY.
Who hasn't heard
The noisy word
And fight absurd
Which has occurred,
To shock this little town from its propriety;
The troubled way,
Of Mesdames A,
And B and J,
And C and K,
Etcetera, all leaders in our best sassiety?
The noisy word
And fight absurd
Which has occurred,
To shock this little town from its propriety;
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Of Mesdames A,
And B and J,
And C and K,
Etcetera, all leaders in our best sassiety?
The question which
The newly rich
(Shoddy and “sich”)
So highly pitch,
It causes some of them a deep anxiety;
How they may drop
The former shop,
And therefrom flop
Unto the top—
The summit of the heaven of sassiety.
The newly rich
(Shoddy and “sich”)
So highly pitch,
It causes some of them a deep anxiety;
How they may drop
The former shop,
And therefrom flop
Unto the top—
The summit of the heaven of sassiety.
There's Mrs. Q,
All angel through,
And Mrs. M,
Whom some condemn
As secretly a slave of inebriety;
The ladies all
At M's will call,
But loudly bawl—
“Q's! not at all;
They have not been admitted in sassiety.”
All angel through,
And Mrs. M,
Whom some condemn
As secretly a slave of inebriety;
The ladies all
At M's will call,
But loudly bawl—
“Q's! not at all;
They have not been admitted in sassiety.”
The journals fill,
As journals will,
The scandal-mill
With zeal until
Its product causes language of impiety,
By Mrs. B,
And Mrs. C,
And Mrs. D,
And Mrs. Z—
Each dame a foremost leader in sassiety.
As journals will,
The scandal-mill
With zeal until
Its product causes language of impiety,
By Mrs. B,
And Mrs. C,
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And Mrs. Z—
Each dame a foremost leader in sassiety.
If Mrs. X
Our feelings vex,
And souls perplex
By nods and becks,
About this violation of propriety,
Shall writers then
As pitying men
Be censured when
They sling a pen
To soften down the trouble in sassiety?
Our feelings vex,
And souls perplex
By nods and becks,
About this violation of propriety,
Shall writers then
As pitying men
Be censured when
They sling a pen
To soften down the trouble in sassiety?
What she may say,
Sweet Mrs. A,
How it may weigh
With Mrs. J,
Are questions after all that cause dubiety;
Yet boldly I
The theme will try,
For Mrs. Y
Says by and by
She'll give me the entree to good sassiety.
Sweet Mrs. A,
How it may weigh
With Mrs. J,
Are questions after all that cause dubiety;
Yet boldly I
The theme will try,
For Mrs. Y
Says by and by
She'll give me the entree to good sassiety.
How shall I deal
So as to heal
The woes I feel
Affect the weal
Of high-bred dames with dresses in variety;
And how define,
By words of mine,
The rigid line
That should confine—
A broken-glass topped wall around sassiety?
So as to heal
The woes I feel
Affect the weal
Of high-bred dames with dresses in variety;
And how define,
By words of mine,
The rigid line
That should confine—
A broken-glass topped wall around sassiety?
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What this obtains?
Good blood, or brains,
Or hard-won gains,
Or flattering trains,
Of sycophants who slaver to satiety?
A gentle birth,
Wide lands on earth,
Purse of huge girth,
Or honest worth,
Which should command the key to good sassiety?
Good blood, or brains,
Or hard-won gains,
Or flattering trains,
Of sycophants who slaver to satiety?
A gentle birth,
Wide lands on earth,
Purse of huge girth,
Or honest worth,
Which should command the key to good sassiety?
The question great
Which here I state,
Needs no debate;
For from this date,
My answer stops their donkeydernfooliety;
Let Mesdames B,
And C, and D,
And G, and P,
All come with me—
Where Avery Drycuss goes is good sassiety.
Which here I state,
Needs no debate;
For from this date,
My answer stops their donkeydernfooliety;
Let Mesdames B,
And C, and D,
And G, and P,
All come with me—
Where Avery Drycuss goes is good sassiety.
| The select poems of Dr. Thomas Dunn English (exclusive of the "Battle lyrics") | |