anybody remember a poem about a

[Glenn Scheper]

You guys are wonderful, namedropping such URLs as these:
http://www.aug.edu/~nprinsky/Engl3002/SucklingNQ.htm
http://www.ualr.edu/~rlknutson/Lyric.html

It is clear to me that Sir John Suckling's poem is
another about autofellatio, lauding that "woman" as
they call wisdom, which is the autofellator himself.

Consider from that first URL:

 Her nose I'd have a foot long, not above,

 With pimples embroidered, for those I love;

 And at the end a comely pearl of snot,

 Considering whether it should fall or not;


Whereas in the second URL I see many of my fellows;
I find Sir Philip Sidney's poem tedious, yet I will
study it for insights to a domain that I treasure:

Can liken them without all peer,

Save one as much as other clear;

Which only thus unhappy be

Because themselves they cannot see.


No talk untaught can find the way.

The tip no jewel needs to wear;*

The tip is jewel of the ear.*


But who those ruddy lips can miss,

Which blessed still themselves do kiss?

* Cf, jewel to pearl above.
* The penis as ear, a standard metaphor.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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