Appealing to the lazywebs

[larryhammer]

I'm looking for a poem I read some years ago -- a 1930's parody of Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" in which a dockyard worker tempts the nymph with the delights of Depression-era working class life. Same first line, but I can't remember any phrases from it. I want to say it was written by one of Auden's friends, either Day-Lewis or Spender (I'm pretty sure not MacNeice), but my memory also insists that it's in an anthology of parody/light verse I own, and yet I can't find it -- not even in The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

Anyone know this poem and where I can find it? Or at least can confirm it's real?

ETA: Five minutes after finally posting, I manage to craft the right search and determine it's Day-Lewis -- and found the text on Wikipedia. In compensation, I give you Day-Lewis's grave. You can find anything on the interwebs, with the correct search terms.

---L.

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[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I loved Nicholas Blake mysteries and was surprised when I found out he was C DL.

I was going to copy and paste your ref to C DL to DebG, but she got here on her own (g)