Antifat I find won’t do;
Give me, give me, my heart’s desire,
Three inches less, or at least full two.”
(O London Town!
Fashion’s thralls ne’er tire!)
(Eight verses omitted.)
Punch. April 24, 1880.
The following rather more serious imitation of Rossetti is from “The Diversions of the Echo Club” by Bayard Taylor. Mr. Taylor remarks that Rossetti’s poetry is encumbered with the burden of colour, sensuous expression, and mediæval imagery and drapery; but he forgot to mention that Rossetti wrote as an artist, and that some of his finest poems were written to accompany, and to elucidate, certain of his own pictures.
Cimabuella.