"The Tale of Lord Lovell"
Jan. 5th, 2015 04:08 pmThe Tale of Lord Lovell
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Author Unknown
Lord Lovell he stood at his own front door,
Seeking the hole for the key;
His hat was wrecked, and his trousers bore
A rent across either knee.
When down came the beauteous Lady Jane
In fair white draperie.
‘Oh, where have you been, Lord Lovell?’ she said,
‘Oh, where have you been?’ said she;
‘I have not closed an eye in bed,
And the clock has just struck three.
Who has been standing you on your head
In the ash-barrel, pardie?’
‘I am not drunk, Lad’ Shane,’ he said;
‘And so late it cannot be;
The clock struck one as I enterèd—
I heard it two times or three;
It must be the salmon on which I fed
Has been too many for me.’
‘Go tell your tale, Lord Lovell,’ she said,
‘To the maritime cavalree,
To your grandmother of the hoary head—
To any one but me:
The door is not used to be openèd
With a cigarette for a key.’
(Quips, 1887) from yourdailypoem.com
by
Author Unknown
Lord Lovell he stood at his own front door,
Seeking the hole for the key;
His hat was wrecked, and his trousers bore
A rent across either knee.
When down came the beauteous Lady Jane
In fair white draperie.
‘Oh, where have you been, Lord Lovell?’ she said,
‘Oh, where have you been?’ said she;
‘I have not closed an eye in bed,
And the clock has just struck three.
Who has been standing you on your head
In the ash-barrel, pardie?’
‘I am not drunk, Lad’ Shane,’ he said;
‘And so late it cannot be;
The clock struck one as I enterèd—
I heard it two times or three;
It must be the salmon on which I fed
Has been too many for me.’
‘Go tell your tale, Lord Lovell,’ she said,
‘To the maritime cavalree,
To your grandmother of the hoary head—
To any one but me:
The door is not used to be openèd
With a cigarette for a key.’
(Quips, 1887) from yourdailypoem.com
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Date: 2015-01-05 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-05 10:58 pm (UTC)I happened to stumble upon the book which contains many other parodies (and it's a free ebook), perhaps you might also enjoy having a browse (hope the link works, let me know)
https://books.google.com/books?id=z7sAVT-a4-YC&pg=PA266&lpg=PA266&dq=the+tale+of+lord+lovell&source=bl&ots=p4LiZSuTqM&sig=PUUnu9hgbf9oEMSKav9qqPUuPzU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bciqVLacA8S-ggTSigM&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20tale%20of%20lord%20lovell&f=false
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Date: 2015-01-10 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-01-07 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-07 12:41 pm (UTC)(also, offtopic--took 5+ tries to post it to the comm...there's still some glitch, I suppose--you don't have any trouble posting to this comm, do you? The message I repeatedly get is either "can't post to the comm with a premoderation queue" or "maximum number of allowed queued posts for user+comm exceeded")
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Date: 2015-01-08 05:44 am (UTC)I have never had trouble posting to this community, nor received the messages you got. At present I have 82 poems scheduled here, 268 for
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Date: 2015-01-10 06:58 pm (UTC)That's weird about the message I get, then, esp. given I had _no_ other posts queued to the comm. I'll ask the mods if it happens again. Thanks!