A Gallery of Rhymes from Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, Book I

On Plume.

 

Teaser quote: “You know that famous quote, where some French poet said that God gives you the first rhyme word, but the poet himself must provide the second—? The Augustan poet worked hard to make it look like just the opposite was happening. The poet throws down the first rhyme word, and then a Voice from the Unfathomable gracefully and elegantly provides the second.”

 

[originally posted, Thursday 2 March 2017]