ombre-party

Updated: May 11, 2025

Pope was the Homer of the drawing-room, the boudoir, the tea-urn, the ombre-party, the sedan-chair, the parrot cage, and the lap-dogs. This poem, in its sparkle and airy grace, is the topmost blossom of a highly artificial society, the quintessence of whatever poetry was possible in those Tea-cup times of hood and hoop, And when the patch was worn,

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson