typsy

Updated: May 10, 2025

James Russell Lowell, in The Temptation of Hassan Khaled, presents the argument of the poet's tempters with charming sympathy: The vine is nature's poet: from his bloom The air goes reeling, typsy with perfume, And when the sun is warm within his blood It mounts and sparkles in a crimson flood, Rich with dumb songs he speaks not, till they find Interpretation in the poet's mind.

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years