human
Can you write a poem for me in the style of Henry James?
assistant
Sure, here's a poem in the style of Henry James:
  _Poetry for Poetry's Sake_
For Poetry's Sake_
Since I left Oxford one change has taken place in its educational
subject; and so I fear you may have to-day to lament the truth of
Again, our formula may be accused of cutting poetry away from its
statements like these meet us everywhere in current criticism of
tendency? Well, but the very same tendency vitiates much of our
Again, it is surely true that we cannot determine beforehand what
citizen, not in his capacity of artist.
distinguished from the form.
'Bring forth the horse!' The horse was brought:
In truth he was a noble steed!
'Bring forth the steed!' The steed was brought:
In truth he was a noble horse!
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore,
It gives a very echo to the seat
Where Love is throned;
Of old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago.
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal silence,
Where is Cupid's crimson motion,
Billowy ecstasy of woe?
Bear me straight, meandering ocean,
Where the stagnant torrents flow.
social--distinctly before him, and then, as we say, clothed it in
Makes us seem
To patch up fragments of a dream,
Part of which comes true, and part
Beats and trembles in the heart.
We do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence;
For it is as the air invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.
 Not that to Schiller 'form' meant mere style and versification.