The Many [Haughton Whose Mirth Gave Woman All Her Will]

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Title:     The Many [Haughton Whose Mirth Gave Woman All Her Will]
Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne [More Titles by Swinburne]

Haughton, whose mirth gave woman all her will:
Field, bright and loud with laughing flower and bird
And keen alternate notes of laud and gird:
Barnes, darkening once with Borgia's deeds the quill
Which tuned the passion of Parthenophil:
Blithe burly Porter, broad and bold of word:
Wilkins, a voice with strenuous pity stirred:
Turk Mason: Brewer, whose tongue drops honey still:
Rough Rowley, handling song with Esau's hand:
Light Nabbes: lean Sharpham, rank and raw by turns,
But fragrant with a forethought once of Burns:
Soft Davenport, sad-robed, but blithe and bland:
Brome, gipsy-led across the woodland ferns:
Praise be with all, and place among our band.

[The end]
Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem: Many [haughton Whose Mirth Gave Woman All Her Will]

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