The Mind
A Non Sequitur
From Poems, ed. O. Gilchrist (1807)
Marke! how the lanterns clowd mine eyes,
See where a moon-drake ’gins to rise;
Saturne crawls much like an iron catt,
To see the naked moone in a slipshott hatt.
Thunder-thumping toadstools crock the pots
To see the mermaids tumble;
Leather cat-a-mountaines shake their heels,
To heare the gosh-hawke grumble.
The rustic threed
Begins to bleed,
And cobwebs elbows itches;
The putrid skyes
Eat mulsacke pyes,
Backed up in logicke breches.
Munday trenchers made good hay,
The lobster weares no dagger;
Meale-mouthed she-peacocke powle the starres,
And made the lowbell stagger.
Blew crocodiles foame in the toe,
Blind meale-bagges do follow the doe;
A ribb of apple braine spice
Will follow the Lancashire dice.
Harke! how the chime of Plutoes pispot cracks,
To see the rainbowes wheele-gann made of flax.
Cite this poem
MLA
Corbet, Richard. “A Non Sequitur.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/corbet/31/.
Chicago
Corbet, Richard. “A Non Sequitur.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/corbet/31/.
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